Thursday, an international coalition of law enforcement agencies from Australia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Romania, Spain and the United States took down and seized two important hacking forums and two other related computer criminal services.
After the demolition operations were revealed by Europol and Bundeskriminalemt (BKA) of Germany, Thursday, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) published its announcement, providing more details on the two forums, which were called cracked e canceled.
According to Doj, since 2018, Cracked had over 4 million users who exchanged criminal tools and stolen information, producing about $ 4 million. Public ministries affirm that the data on the IT crime forums hit at least 17 million Americans.
Among the affected people there is a woman in New York who was presumably “cyberstalk”, “Sestorted”, and harassed by someone who used a product offered on Cracked, which promised access to “billions of leaked websites “By allowing users to look for the stolen access credentials, ministries said.
“A computer criminal entered the victim’s username in the instrument and obtained the victim’s credentials for an online account. Using the victim’s credentials, the topic therefore has cyberstalcing the victim and has sent sexually humiliating and threatening messages to the victim “, according to the Doj, according to which forum convulsions aim to interrupt” this type of IT crime and the proliferation of these tools in the computer crime community. “
Like another example, the Doj said there was a product on Nulled that claimed to contain the names and the social security number of 500,000 US citizens.
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Nulled, which had operated since 2016, had over 5 million users and over 43 million advertising posts of hacking tools and stolen data. The Doj said Nulled had an annual turnover of about $ 1 million.
The DOJ press release said that Lucas Sohn, a 29 -year -old Argentine who lives in Spain, is accused of being an “active administrator” of Nulled and that faces criminal accusations for numerous IT crimes, including traffic passwords and others data to access computers without access to computer authorization.
Sohn faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison for conspiracy for password traffic, 10 years in prison for access to access to the device and 15 years in prison for identity fraud, said the Doj.
Here is the criminal complaint against Lucas Sohn, as well as the seizure mandate for canceled.
