Security News > 2020 > January > Stolen creds site WeLeakInfo busted by multinational cop op for data reselling
Two men have been arrested after Britain's National Crime Agency and its international pals claimed the takedown of breached credentials-reselling website WeLeakInfo.
In a statement the agency alleged that credentials from the site were being used in cyber attacks affecting Britain, Germany and America.
The two arrested men were said, by NCA investigators, to have made £200,000 from running the site.
"Online payments tracing back to IP addresses believed to have been used by the two men point to them being heavily involved in the running of the site," said the NCA in a statement, which included allegations that the two had been paying "Infrastructure companies" in Germany and New Zealand to host data.
Rew Shorrock, the NCA's senior investigating officer for the case, said in a canned statement: "These arrests have resulted in the seizure of the site's data which included 12 billion personal credentials and so work is continuing by law enforcement to mitigate these and notify the sites that were breached."