Russian police have arrested the person they think is the administrator of LeakBase, a well-known international hacker forum This article explores investigation going russian. . Authorities caught the suspect in Taganrog, a city in the Rostov Oblast of Russia.
The forum was like a huge underground market with more than 147,000 members. It had hundreds of millions of stolen records, such as banking information, user account credentials, and private business documents. Threat actors used this repository a lot to carry out secondary attacks like credential stuffing, identity theft, and targeted financial fraud. The suspect is facing serious charges under Article 272.1, Parts 3 and 6 of the Russian Criminal Code, which deals with getting access to computer information without permission.
The defendant is still in jail while the investigation is going on.
The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) and the Bureau of Special Technical Measures (BSTM) worked together to take down a platform that had been trading in stolen personal data and giving people access to networks for four years.
