A 22-year-old man from Arnhem was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of possessing around 12 billion user names and passwords and offering them for sale via website We Leak Info, police revealed on Friday. The arrest was made by the cyber crime team Oost-Nederland in close collaboration with the British National Crime Agency which tipped off the Dutch police force. The FBI and German police were also involved in the investigation. During a search of two homes in Arnhem
Been breached? I have 7 times that I know of. This site apparently was an aggregator and if your information was out there from breaches, bad guys could buy it – for as little as $2 access to 12 BILLION pieces of information. C R A Z Y!
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Congrats to the FBI for taking the site down – check out this story….
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Fortunately I use a service which alerted me to each breach – the good guys got these bad guys – but I am bett’n more bad guys out there
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