US Department of Justice made an announcement today that Slillpp, the largest online marketplace of stolen log-in credentials.
This is a multinational operation from Law enforcement agencies form the United States, Germanym, the Netherlands and Romania that made this to happen.
All servers of the marketplace now have been seized. Their websites are now have been replaced with a seizure banner on the clear web. They display an invalid onionsite address error on the dark web.
FBI works with the coordination of prosecutors and investigators from worldwide jurisdictions in this international operation.
Germany’s Bundeskriminalamt, the Netherlands’ National High Tech Crime Unit, and Romania’s Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism are the name of the agencies that involved in the slillpp’s taken down.
As per the Advanced Intelligence CEO, Vitali Kremez, “Slilpp is the largest marketplace of compromised accounts ever seen in the criminal underground. The marketplace was responsible for major inflows of compromised data resulting in millions of dollars of illicit profits to the administrators.”
Slillpp was used by cyber-criminals since 2012. They used it to sell and buy stolen log-in data from bank, online payment, mobile phone number, retailer and other online accounts. They used these data in unauthorized transactions.
DOJ said, “According to the affidavit, a fraction of the victimized account providers have calculated losses so far; based on limited existing victim reports, the stolen login credentials sold over Slilpp have been used to cause over $200 million in losses in the United States. The full impact of Slilpp is not yet known”.
Slillpp vendors sold over 80 million of stolen log-in data from more than 1,400 companies before the marketplace was taken down and the sites were seized.
Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, L. McQuaid added, “The Slilpp marketplace allegedly caused hundreds of millions of dollars in losses to victims worldwide, including by enabling buyers to steal the identities of American victims”.
