The international hacker forum 'Raid Forums' with more than 500,000 users is finally seized
It was announced that the world's largest hacker forum 'Raid Forums', which sold a large amount of personal information and confidential corporate data, was confiscated by US authorities and the founder was accused.
US Leads Seizure of One of the World's Largest Hacker Forums and Arrests Administrator | USAO-EDVA | Department of Justice
One of the world's biggest hacker forums taken down | Europol
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/one-of-world%E2%80%99s-biggest-hacker-forums-taken-down
On April 12, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had begun prosecution proceedings for Diogo Santos Coelho, the founder and chief administrator of the Raid Forums, and has carried out a foreclosure of the Raid Forums. Coelho was already arrested in the United Kingdom on January 31, 2022, and is currently undergoing transfer procedures to the United States.
Raid Forums is a forum where hackers from all over the world gather, and personal information leaked from Facebook's user data and personal information trading site 'WeLeakInfo', and 780GB leaked from game publisher Electronic Arts (EA). Internal data etc. were sold. According to the Justice Ministry's announcement, more than 10 billion pieces of information were sold at the hacker forum.
780GB of EA hacked and stolen source code, internal tools, etc. will be sold --GIGAZINE
The US government has succeeded in seizing three domains related to Raid Forums and closing the platform in collaboration with domestic organizations such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Secret Service and overseas law enforcement agencies. According to the indictment, founder and administrator Coelho was 21 at the time of this announcement. Coelho began designing and managing the Raid Forums on January 1, 2015, at least when he was 14 years old, and was involved in the operation of the Raid Forums for many years until he was arrested on January 31, 2022.
Raid Forums has implemented a membership system to provide users with excellent functions, and the users who became members were called 'God'. Coelho also made a profit by selling 'credits' that give members specific access rights, and promoted the transaction of personal information sold at Raid Forums by hiring an intermediary. I did.
'This global investigation represents a remarkable dedication to secret services, a partnership with foreign law enforcement agencies essential to destroy the advanced network of cybercriminals,' said Jason Kane, Special Agent for Secret Services. It highlights its importance. This incident provides an example of teamwork to prevent this type of cybercriminal from injuring citizens of the United States and other countries. '
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