"Authorities Take Down Prolific WT1SHOP Cybercrime Marketplace"

According to the US Department of Justice (DoJ), the US and Portuguese authorities have shut down a notorious cybercrime marketplace that made sellers of stolen personal information (PII) millions of dollars over the years.  WT1SHOP was one of the largest websites of its kind, offering in the region of six million records for sale.  It was seized by Portuguese authorities yesterday, while their counterparts in the US shuttered four associated domains: “wt1shop.net,” “wt1store.cc,” “wt1store.com,” and “wt1store.net.”  The DoJ stated that among the records up for sale on the marketplace were 25,000 scanned driver’s licenses and passports, 1.7 million login credentials for e-commerce stores, 108,000 bank accounts, and 21,800 credit cards.  These could be bought from sellers on the forum using Bitcoin.  There were 106,273 users and 94 sellers registered on the site as of December 2021.  The DoJ noted that stolen credentials were a big draw for buyers.  As of June 2020, the marketplace had facilitated the sale of 2.4 million credentials for $4m, including logins for retailers, financial institutions, email accounts, PayPal accounts, and ID cards.  Also for sale were credentials to remotely access and operate computers, servers, and network devices.  

Infosecurity reports: "Authorities Take Down Prolific WT1SHOP Cybercrime Marketplace"