Security News > 2020 > January > FBI Takes Down Site Selling Subscriptions to Stolen Data
A website that sold stolen personal data to subscribers, has been seized by the FBI in an action supported by the UK's National Crime Agency, the Dutch National Police Corp, the German Bundeskriminalamt, and the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
The searchable data was claimed to be a total of 12 billion records gathered from 10,000 data breeches.
Retrieved data could include names, email addresses, usernames, phone numbers, and passwords for online accounts.
What hasn't been indicated at this stage is whether the various national authorities involved believe they have secured all copies of the data and code used by the WeLeakInfo site.
Ilia Kolochenko, founder and CEO of ImmuniWeb, commented, "From a legal perspective, the commerce of stolen property is criminally punishable in most Western jurisdictions. The prosecution will likely argue that the admins were deliberately profiteering from the unlawful sale of stolen property, recklessly allowing third-parties to access victims' sensitive data."