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 together with sold access to the data, including plaintext passwords.
Launched inwards belatedly 2015, LeakedSource had collected only about 3 billion personal identity records together with associated passwords from some of the massive information breaches, including LinkedIn, VK.com, Last.Fm, Ashley Madison, MySpace, Twitter, Weebly together with Foursquare, together with made them accessible together with searchable to anyone for a fee.
LeakedSource was close down, together with its associated social media accounts convey been suspended later the law enforcement raided its operator before terminal year.
However, some other website amongst the same domain advert hosted past times servers inwards Russian Federation is yet inwards operation.
Bloom is defendant of operating the notorious website together with claimed to convey earned nearly US$200,000 past times selling stolen personal identity records together with associated passwords for a "small fee" via his site.
Appeared inwards a Toronto courtroom on Monday, Jan 15, Bloom charged amongst trafficking inwards identity information, mischief to data, unauthorised role of a computer, together with possession of belongings obtained past times crime, the RCMP said.
"This investigation is related to claims nigh 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 proceed to run diligently amongst our domestic together with international law enforcement partners to prosecute online criminality."
Bloom was arrested together with charged on Dec 22, 2017, equally business office of the RCMP's national cybercrime partition investigation, dubbed 'Project Adoration.'
The RCMP said the Dutch national law together with the United States' FBI assisted inwards the operation, adding the illustration could non convey been cracked without international collaboration.
Bloom is currently inwards custody together with due dorsum inwards courtroom on Feb 16.
Cybersecurity lawyer Imran Ahmad told Reuters that Bloom could confront a maximum judgement 10 years inwards prison.
