Security News > 2022 > September > US seizes WT1SHOP market selling credit cards, credentials, and IDs
An international law enforcement operation has seized the website and domains for WT1SHOP, a criminal marketplace that sold stolen credit cards, I.D. cards, and millions of login credentials.
WT1SHOP was one of the largest criminal marketplaces of PII data commonly used by threat actors to buy credentials for account takeovers, credit cards used for online purchases, and government I.D. cards for identity theft.
"The WT1shop was one of the turnkey account shop selling compromised accounts and personally identifiable information since the Slilpp takedown," AdvIntel CEO Vitali Kremez told BleepingComputer.
Today, the Department of Justice announced that Portuguese authorities seized the WT1SHOP website, and the U.S. seized four Internet domains used to access the criminal marketplace, including wt1shop.net, wt1store.
"Law enforcement's review of WT1SHOP in December 2021 showed that the number of users and sellers on the website had increased to approximately 106,273 users and 94 sellers with a total of approximately 5.85 million credentials available for sale," reads the DOJ announcement.
The DOJ announcement says law enforcement traced the bitcoin payments, email addresses, and admin accounts for WT1SHOP back to Nicolai Colesnicov, age 36, of the Republic of Moldova.