Leakedsource Founder Arrested For Selling Three Billion Stolen Credentials

Canadian regime accept arrested in addition to charged an Ontario human for operating a website that collected 'stolen' personal identity records in addition to credentials from some 3 billion online accounts in addition to sold them for profit.

According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the 27-year-old Jordan Evan Bloom of Thornhill is the mortal behind the notorious LeakedSource.com—a major repository that compiled populace information breaches in addition to sold access to the data, including plaintext passwords.

Launched inward slow 2015, LeakedSource had collected only about 3 billion personal identity records in addition to associated passwords from some of the massive information breaches, including LinkedIn, VK.com, Last.Fm, Ashley Madison, MySpace, Twitter, Weebly in addition to Foursquare, in addition to made them accessible in addition to searchable to anyone for a fee.

LeakedSource was close down, in addition to its associated social media accounts accept been suspended later on the law enforcement raided its operator before terminal year.

However, some other website alongside the same domain advert hosted yesteryear servers inward Russian Federation is even then inward operation.

Bloom is defendant of operating the notorious website in addition to claimed to accept earned nearly US$200,000 yesteryear selling stolen personal identity records in addition to associated passwords for a "small fee" via his site.

Appeared inward a Toronto courtroom on Monday, Jan 15, Bloom charged alongside trafficking inward identity information, mischief to data, unauthorised utilization of a computer, in addition to possession of belongings obtained yesteryear crime, the RCMP said.

"This investigation is related to claims nearly a website operator alleged to accept made hundreds of thousands of dollars selling personal information," the RCMP Cybercrime Investigative Team said inward a statement.

"The RCMP volition proceed to operate diligently alongside our domestic in addition to international law enforcement partners to prosecute online criminality."

Bloom was arrested in addition to charged on Dec 22, 2017, every mo role of the RCMP's national cybercrime partition investigation, dubbed 'Project Adoration.'

The RCMP said the Dutch national law in addition to the United States' FBI assisted inward the operation, adding the illustration could non accept been cracked without international collaboration.

Bloom is currently inward custody in addition to due dorsum inward courtroom on Feb 16.

Cybersecurity lawyer Imran Ahmad told Reuters that Bloom could facial expression upwards a maximum judgement 10 years inward prison.

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