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On Thursday , an outside coalition of law of nature enforcement agencies from Australia , France , Germany , Greece , Italy , Romania , Spain , and the United Statestook down and seize two big hacking forumsand two other related cybercriminal services .
After the squelcher operations were divulge by Europol and Germany’sBundeskriminalamt ( BKA)on Thursday , the U.S. Department of Justice ( DOJ)published its own announcement , provide more inside information about the two meeting place , which were call Cracked and Nulled .
According to the DOJ , since 2018 , Cracked had over 4 million user who trade in cybercriminal tools and stolen selective information , producing around $ 4 million in revenue . prosecutor say the information on the cybercrime forums affected at least 17 million Americans .
Among those affected is a woman in New York who was allegedly “ cyberstalked , ” “ sextorted , ” and harassed by someone who used a product offered on Cracked , which promised access code to “ billions of leaked websites ” by letting users look for stolen login credentials , prosecutors say .
“ A cybercriminal entered the victim ’s username into the tool and obtained the victim ’s credentials for an on-line account . Using the dupe ’s credentials , the subject then cyberstalked the victim and send out sexually humbling and threatening messages to the victim , ” according to the DOJ , which said that the seizures of the forum have the goal of cut off “ this character of cybercrime and the proliferation of these prick in the cybercrime biotic community . ”
As another example the DOJ said there was a product on Nulled that lay claim to turn back the name calling and Social Security numbers of 500,000 U.S. citizens .
Nulled , which operated since 2016 , had more than 5 million users and over 43 million Post advertising hacking tools and steal data point . The DOJ said Nulled had an annual taxation of around $ 1 million .
The DOJ insistence release tell that Lucas Sohn , a 29 - class - old Argentinian live in Spain , is accuse of being an “ active administrator ” of Nulled , and present criminal charges for several cybercrimes , including traffic passwords and other data to get at computers without authorization .
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Sohn face a maximum penalisation of five class in prison house for confederacy to dealings in passwords , 10 old age in prison for accession twist pseudo , and 15 years in prison house for identity fraud , the DOJ said .
Here arethe vicious complaintagainst Lucas Sohn , as well asthe seizure warrantfor Nulled.to .
