Security News > 2020 > December > Police Arrest 21 WeLeakInfo Customers Who Bought Breached Personal Data
21 people have been arrested across the UK as part of a nationwide cyber crackdown targeting customers of WeLeakInfo[.
A now-defunct online service that had been previously selling access to data hacked from other websites.
Launched in 2017, the service provided its users a search engine to access the personal information illegally obtained from over 10,000 data breaches and containing over 12 billion indexed stolen credentials, including, for example, names, email addresses, usernames, phone numbers, and passwords for online accounts.
On top of that, WeLeakInfo offered subscription plans, allowing unlimited searches and access to the results of these data breaches during the subscription period that lasted anywhere from one day, one week, one month, or three months.
"Cyber criminals rely on the fact that people duplicate passwords on multiple sites and data breaches create the opportunity for fraudsters to exploit that," NCA's Paul Creffield said.