This would also allow malicious threat actors to buy stolen data and conduct identity theft scam or hijack accounts of celebrities as well as unsuspecting users.īloom is now in custody and it is expected that he will be making his first court appearance today. started its operation in October 2015 and provided sensitive personal information obtained from data breaches to anyone willing to pay for it.
The RCMP will continue to work diligently with our domestic and international law enforcement partners to prosecute online criminality, said RCMP. “This investigation is related to claims about a website operator alleged to have made hundreds of thousands of dollars selling personal information. Bloom would then allegedly sell those credentials for a small fee and ended up earning a whopping $247,000 from trafficking identity information. However, on December 22nd, 2017 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) arrested a 27-year-old Ontario man Jordan Evan Bloom for allegedly operating and selling stolen username and passwords. Bloom has been charged with trafficking in identity information, unauthorized use of computer, mischief to data and possession of property obtained by crime.Īccording to a press release, in 2016 it came to RCMP’s knowledge that the servers hosting were located in Quebec and that is when their cybercrime unit initiated “Project Adoration” and raided which at that time contained over 3 billion personal identity records and associated emails, username, and passwords from large-scale data breaches including MySpace, Dropbox, LinkedIn. But I am not wrong.” ’s operator arrested
If somehow he recovers from this and launches LS again, then I’ll be wrong. Wasn’t arrested, but all SSD’s got taken, and LeakedSource servers got subpoenaed and placed under federal investigation. “LeakedSource is down forever and won’t be coming back. At the time, users speculated that the site has been raided by law enforcement authorities but there was nothing conclusive other than an Anonymous message on Pastebin website stating that:
On January 27, 2017, the breach notification and password service went offline without stating any obvious reason.
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