A forum which allowed criminals access to stolen personal data - for a fee - has been taken down.
An online forum providing criminals with stolen personal data has been taken down, in a global operation which saw its founder arrested.
Its founder and chief administrator Diego Santos Coelho, 21, from Portugal, was arrested in the UK on 31 January.Separately the National Crime Agency reported police had arrested another suspected founder of the site - a 21 year-old from Croydon - at his home in March. According to the threat intelligence firm Recorded Future, the site contained more than 530,000 registered members and was a powerful tool among low to mid-level cyber-criminals.
Investigators found that the forum was operating a membership scheme, where users of the site paid up to 10 euros for access to chatrooms which allowed the exchange of photographs and data linked to cyber-crime.
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