As you can see from the image above this was a worldwide effort, including the National Crime Agency and Europol, to close the doors on RaidForums, a resource that cyber criminals used to buy and sell stolen information. Unusually this site was on the internet – you and I could have visited the site – rather than the darkweb.
One of the world’s biggest hacker forums taken down | Europol (europa.eu)
Raidforums marketplace shut down in global operation – BBC News
Further Reading
Global operation takes down hackers’ leaked data market | AP News
US seizes RaidForums, the “go-to” site for hackers selling stolen login details | Ars Technica
Stolen-data market RaidForums taken down in domain seizure • The Register
