Two arrested after attempt to sell 12 billion passwords
20 January 2020 |
10:58 am
The website purported to give access to stolen data from 10,000 data breaches, giving hackers easy access to user credentials. The police operation tracking the cybercrime involved the UK, US, Netherlands and Germany.
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