International agency release
Takedown of notorious hacker marketplace selling your identity to criminals – Genesis Market listed for sale the identities of over 2 million people when it was shut down
Europol, April 5, 2023. 17-country coordination, 119 arrests, 208 property searches.
- Source type
- International agency release
- Published
- April 5, 2023
- Research grade
- P2
- Used in entries
- 4
Bibliographic record
- Publisher
- Europol
- Published
- April 5, 2023
- Source type
- International agency release
- Research grade
- Source grade P2
- Language
- English
- Official record
- Official publication
- What it supports
- 17-country coordination, 119 arrests, 208 property searches
- Dataset id
- src_europol_cookie_monster_2023
How this source is used
Cited 4 times across 3 record types.
The role on each citation records what the source was relied on for. A primary source establishes the fact, a supporting source corroborates it, technical evidence describes the infrastructure, and a later outcome records what happened afterwards.
Sources were reviewed to a research cutoff of August 23, 2026. Addresses recorded after that date are not reflected here.
Cited by
Takedown records
1 citation
Cited on the takedown record itself.
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Operation Cookie MonsterPrimary source
Fraud and stolen data, April 2023
Organization roles
2 citations
Cited for an organization's recorded role in a takedown.
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Politie (Netherlands National Police)Primary source
Co-lead, Operation Cookie Monster
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European Union Agency for Law Enforcement CooperationPrimary source
Coordinator, Operation Cookie Monster
Excluded candidates
1 citation
Cited for a candidate event assessed and left out of the index.
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OFAC sanctions on Genesis MarketPrimary source
Sanctions-only action, separate from the domain seizure recorded as td_2023_genesis.