Authorities Seize Online Marketplace for Stolen Credentials

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The domains of an online marketplace for stolen login credentials and other personally identifiable information have been seized by law enforcement (PII).

On Tuesday, Portuguese authorities seized a website selling over 5.85 million PII records, while law enforcement agencies in the United States seized four domains associated with the online store, namely ‘wt1shop.net,’ ‘wt1store.cc,’ ‘wt1store.com,’ and ‘wt1store.net. Nicolai Colesnicov, 36, of the Republic of Moldova, is charged in a federal complaint unsealed on Tuesday with operating wt1shop to facilitate the sale of stolen credentials and PII.

Approximately 25,000 scanned driver’s licenses/passports, 1.7 million stolen login credentials for online merchants, the information of 108,000 bank accounts, and approximately 21,800 credit cards were available on the dark web.

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