The US Department of Justice says that the electronic crime forum has affected 17 million Americans
On Thursday, an international alliance of law enforcement agencies from Australia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Romania, Spain and the United States He dropped and seized two prominent forums And two other relevant electronic services.
After removal operations have been detected Europol And Germany Bundeskriminalamt (bka) Thursday, the US Department of Justice She published her own announcementProviding more details about the two forums, which were called cracked and championship.
According to Doj, since 2018, Cracked had more than four million users traded in Cyberrenal tools and stolen information, which led to about $ 4 million of revenues. Prosecutors say that data related to electronic crime forums affected at least 17 million Americans.
Among the affected people, among them is a woman in New York, claimed to be “Cyblestalked”, “Sextorted”, and harassment by a person using a product presented on Cracked, who promised to reach “billions of web sites that were leaked” by allowing users to search On the stolen login data, the prosecutors said.
“The Internet criminal entered the victim’s username to the tool and obtained the victim’s accreditation data for an online account. Using the victim’s credentials, the topic then designed the victim and sent insulting messages and a sexual threat to the victim,” according to the Ministry of Justice, who said that the forums had a goal. ” Disable “this type of electronic crime and the spread of these tools in the electronic crime community. “
Another example, the Ministry of Justice said that there was a product on Nulled, claiming to have the names and numbers of social security of 500,000 American citizens.
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Nulled, who has been working since 2016, has been more than five million users and more than 43 million jobs to announce piracy and stolen data. The Ministry of Justice has achieved annual revenues of about one million dollars.
The press statement of the Ministry of Justice said that Lucas Sun, 29, lives in Spain, accused of being an active official for Nulled, and faces criminal charges of many electronic tastes, including trafficking passwords and other data to access computers without computers Without permission.
The Ministry of Justice said that Sohn is facing the maximum of five years in prison due to a conspiracy to traffic in passwords, 10 years in prison to defraud devices, and 15 years in prison for defrauding identity.
