"FBI Takes Down Site Selling Subscriptions to Stolen Data"

The FBI, with support from the UK's National Crime Agency, the Dutch National Police Corp, the German Bundeskriminalamtt, and the Police Service of Northern Ireland, took down a site called WeLeakInfo, that was used by cybercriminals to sell stolen personal data to subscribers. The malicious webpage sold plaintext passwords belonging to other people, with subscription fees ranging from $2 to $70, depending on the amount of time chosen to have access to the stolen data provided by the site. The personal data, searchable on the site, was said to be from 10,000 data breaches. Using the WeLeakInfo website, cybercriminals could have accessed data from a collection of 12 billion records, containing information such as names, email addresses, usernames, and phone numbers in addition to passwords to online services. This article continues to discuss what the WeLeakInfo website was used for, as well as the investigation and takedown of the site. 

Security Week reports "FBI Takes Down Site Selling Subscriptions to Stolen Data"