The Digital Gavel Falls: Global Strike Dismantles LeakBase Cybercrime Forum

The U.S. Department of Justice, supported by Europol and partners in 14 countries, seized LeakBase—an open-web marketplace that hosted hundreds of millions of stolen credentials, payment card data, and other sensitive records—taking down its domains, seizing databases and logs, and arresting dozens of active users; authorities highlighted the operation as part of an ongoing effort to disrupt infrastructures that enable large-scale identity theft and account takeovers.