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one of the world s biggest criminal marketplaces, used by online fraudsters to buy passwords, has been shut down following a global police investigation. known as genesis market, it sold login details, ip addresses and other personal data, allowing criminals to log into bank accounts. 2a people have been arrested in the uk. with more on this, we can talk to our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford. tell us more about the latest on the story. more than 120 people arrested worldwide in this operation, which is been run by dutch police and the fbi in the united states and also police didn t new zealand, australia, canada, the uk, with the national agency took the lead and also all across europe. it s been a very big operation, running for around 36 hours now. the idea was to take this website, genesis market out of action and also to arrest many of the people suspected of using it to bleed back in very large numbers. it s thought about 2 million peoples dater was for ....
Out of action and also to arrest many of the people suspected of using it to bleed back in very large numbers. it s thought about 2 million peoples dater was for sale on genis market. it wasn tjust logins and passwords, simple access to peoples banking accounts and shopping accounts but also all sorts of other information about the computer they usually use, browse the information about ip address, physical location and putting all that together would allow a hacker to actually pretty much convinced a or a shopping service that it was the genuine owner of that username and password. and therefore allow them to get much more access to money or to goods before they were detected. that is what genesis market specialise in. now if you log into genesis market website you ll get a message from the fbi saying that it s been seized as part of ....