New Delhi: International police has busted the most dangerous market, which used to steal people’s data and sell it to hackers across the world. The law enforcement agency, which conducted an operation involving 17 countries, shut down Genesis Markets on Tuesday and seized its infrastructure.
The world’s largest cyber crime website (Cyber Crime Website) and popular marketplace among cyber criminals – Genesis Market has been seized. For this, the law enforcement agencies of 17 countries, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), an American spy agency, conducted a special operation.
Investigations (FBI) and the Dutch National Police (Polity), a command post was established at Europol headquarters on the day of the operation to coordinate the various enforcement actions taken worldwide. The operation was named ‘Operation Cookie Monster’. According to the statement, a worldwide crackdown against hackers resulted in the arrest of 119 people. Apart from this 208 properties were attached. Due to which 119 people were arrested. Apart from this 208 properties were attached. Due to which 119 people were arrested. Apart from this 208 properties were attached.
According to a report, people’s login details, IP addresses and other data used to create digital fingerprints were sold on the Genesis market. It is said that here cyber criminals used to buy personal details of people for less than a dollar and cheat. Now ‘Operation Cookie Monster’ has become the headline of news websites around the world. Many people are talking about this.
Caused huge damage to many countries
According to a report, cybercrime hub ‘Genesis Market’ has 80 million credentials and digital fingerprints of 2 million people for sale. ‘Genesis Market’ was created in 2017. It was a system on the Internet, where only hackers or other cybercriminals could enter. The ‘Genesis Market’ portal is similar to a normal website, operating in the open web as well as the dark web. Due to this, many countries had to suffer huge losses.
Used to steal someone’s information by paying money
In ‘Genesis Market’, passwords of Amazon, Facebook, PayPal, Netflix, eBay, Uber among others were easily obtained by paying money. If people used to change passwords, the information was also available to criminals connected to Genesis Market. Based on the location of the people, these criminals used to conduct big scams. Now a banner on Genesis Market’s website shows that it has been confiscated.