FBI seizes WeLeakInfo, a website that sold access to breached data
US authorities have seized this week the domain of WeLeakInfo.com, an online service that for the past three years has been selling access to data hacked from other websites.
The website provided access to people's cleartext passwords, allowing hackers to purchase a subscription on the site and gain access to billions of user credentials.
Due to this illegal practice, the website built a reputation on the hacking underground as an excellent source and place to perform reconnaissance against their targets. Hackers would buy access to the site, and then search for the name, email, or userame of a person they wanted to hack. The site would then return results about all the data breaches were the user's data was included, including cleartext passwords -- if available.
