The U.S. Department of Justice announced the seizure of several web domains allegedly connected to cyberattacks-for-hire schemes and the sale of stolen personal information, The Hill reports. The websites, weleakinfo.to, ipstress.in and ovh-booter.com, were seized in coordination with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Belgian and Netherlands’ law enforcement. Authorities claimed weleakinfo.to obtained more than 10,000 data breaches with 7 billion records, including names, email addresses, usernames, phone numbers and passwords for various accounts. The ipstress.in and ovh-booter.com websites also offered users distributed denial-of-service attacks.
US authorities seize web domains offering alleged sales of stolen personal information
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