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Law enforcement release

Weleakinfo.com: Site hosting stolen credentials taken down after international operation

National Crime Agency, January 17, 2020. WeLeakInfo: the NCA-led investigation begun in August 2019, the two 22-year-old suspects arrested on Wednesday 15 January 2020 by the PSNI and the Dutch police, the profits in excess of GBP 200,000, and the German BKA and FBI seizure of the domain at 11.30pm the same day.

Source type
Law enforcement release
Published
January 17, 2020
Research grade
P1
Used in entries
2

Bibliographic record

Publisher
National Crime Agency
Published
January 17, 2020
Source type
Law enforcement release
Research grade
Source grade P1
Language
English
Official record
Official publication
Address
https://wired-gov.net/wg/news.nsf/articles/Weleakinfo.com+Site+hosting+stolen+credentials+taken+down+after+international+operation+17012020160500?open=
What it supports
WeLeakInfo: the NCA-led investigation begun in August 2019, the two 22-year-old suspects arrested on Wednesday 15 January 2020 by the PSNI and the Dutch police, the profits in excess of GBP 200,000, and the German BKA and FBI seizure of the domain at 11.30pm the same day
Dataset id
src_wiredgov_nca_weleakinfo_2020

Research notes

  • Republication of a National Crime Agency press release on the Wired-Gov alerting service; the page is labelled 'National Crime Agency | Official Press Release' and timestamped 'Friday 17 Jan 2020 @ 16:05'.
  • This follows the pattern of the existing sibling records src_nca_welcome_to_video_2019 and src_nca_webstresser_2018, which also carry NCA releases via Wired-Gov URLs.
  • The page text renders the Dutch arrest location as 'Vriendin', which does not match any Dutch place name and appears to be corrupted; do not rely on this page for the arrest location.

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Cited 2 times across 2 record types.

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