Stolen-data market RaidForums taken down in domain seizure

2022-04-12 23:51

After at least six years of peddling pilfered personal information, the infamous stolen-data market RaidForums has been shut down following the arrest of suspected founder and admin Diogo Santos Coelho in the UK earlier this year.

The six-count US indictment [PDF] charges Coelho with conspiracy, access device fraud, and aggravated identity theft following from his alleged activities as the chief administrator of RaidForums, an online market for compromised or stolen databases containing personal and financial information.

The unsealing of the indictment, initially filed May 6, 2021, was accompanied by word of an international effort to shutter the web domains associated with RaidForums - raidforums[.

"The seizure of the RaidForums website - which facilitated the sale of stolen data from millions of people throughout the world - and the charges against the marketplace's administrator are a testament to the strength of the FBI's international partnerships," said Assistant Director in Charge Steven M. D'Antuono of the FBI's Washington Field Office in a statement.

According to the indictment, Coelho founded RaidForums in January 2015.

"The God membership offered almost unlimited access to the RaidForums and features," the indictment says, indicating that designation as a deity still falls short of "Omnipotent," the sudo-nym of the RaidForums admin.

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