U.S. and European authorities said on Tuesday they had seized RaidForums, a popular website used by hackers to buy and sell stolen data, and the United States also unsealed charges against the website's founder and chief administrator Diego Santos Coelho.
Coelho, 21, of Portugal, was arrested in the United Kingdom on Jan. 31, and remains in custody while the United States seeks his extradition to stand trial in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the U.S. Justice Department said.
In a parallel statement, Europol also lauded the takedown saying the RaidForums online marketplace had been seized in an operation known as "Operation Tourniquet," that helped coordinate investigations by authorities from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Portugal and Romania. In addition to Coelho, it said two of his alleged accomplices were also in custody. It did not provide further details about the other two people arrested.
It alleges that between Jan. 1, 2015 and his arrest in January 2022, he controlled and served as chief administrator of the site.
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