FBI i samarbete med polis i Nordirland och Nederländerna har slagit till mot Weakleakinfo – en webbplats som sålt information från över 10 000 intrång i andras datorsystem. Den aktuella domänen är beslagtagen och en 22-årig man har gripits misstänkt för att ha kopplingar till webbplatsen.
Webbplatsen har uppgivit att de har över 12 miljarder komtouppgifter:
Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Justice announced that they have seized the internet domain name weleakinfo.com. The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu of the District of Columbia and Special Agent in Charge Timothy M. Dunham of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
The website had claimed to provide its users a search engine to review and obtain the personal information illegally obtained in over 10,000 data breaches containing over 12 billion indexed records – including, for example, names, email addresses, usernames, phone numbers, and passwords for online accounts. The website sold subscriptions so that any user could access the results of these data breaches, with subscriptions providing unlimited searches and access during the subscription period (one day, one week, one month, or three months).
