According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the 27-year-old Jordan Evan Bloom of Thornhill is the someone behind the notorious LeakedSource.com—a major repository that compiled world information breaches too sold access to the data, including plaintext passwords.
Launched inwards belatedly 2015, LeakedSource had collected but about 3 billion personal identity records too associated passwords from some of the massive information breaches, including LinkedIn, VK.com, Last.Fm, Ashley Madison, MySpace, Twitter, Weebly too Foursquare, too made them accessible too searchable to anyone for a fee.
LeakedSource was close down, too its associated social media accounts convey been suspended afterwards the law enforcement raided its operator before final year.
However, some other website alongside the same domain advert hosted yesteryear servers inwards Russian Federation is all the same inwards operation.
Bloom is defendant of operating the notorious website too claimed to convey earned nearly US$200,000 yesteryear selling stolen personal identity records too associated passwords for a "small fee" via his site.
Appeared inwards a Toronto courtroom on Monday, Jan 15, Bloom charged alongside trafficking inwards identity information, mischief to data, unauthorised role of a computer, too possession of belongings obtained yesteryear crime, the RCMP said.
"This investigation is related to claims nearly a website operator alleged to convey made hundreds of thousands of dollars selling personal information," the RCMP Cybercrime Investigative Team said inwards a statement.
"The RCMP volition buy the farm along to run diligently alongside our domestic too international law enforcement partners to prosecute online criminality."
Bloom was arrested too charged on Dec 22, 2017, every mo business office of the RCMP's national cybercrime segmentation investigation, dubbed 'Project Adoration.'
The RCMP said the Dutch national police pull too the United States' FBI assisted inwards the operation, adding the illustration could non convey been cracked without international collaboration.
Bloom is currently inwards custody too due dorsum inwards courtroom on Feb 16.
Cybersecurity lawyer Imran Ahmad told Reuters that Bloom could appear upwards a maximum judgement 10 years inwards prison.
