U.S. Authorities Shut Down Slilpp, the Largest Marketplace for Stolen Logins

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11. June 2021

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As part of an international law enforcement investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced Thursday that it has disrupted and shut down the infrastructure of the stolen credentials marketplace known as Slilpp, according to The Hacker News.  

More than a dozen people have been charged or arrested in connection with the illegal market. The cyberattack, coordinated by US, Germany, the Netherlands, and Romania, also took control of several servers that housed the group’s infrastructure and the various domains it maintained. 

Slilpp has been in operation since 2012. It was an underground marketplace for allegedly stolen online account login credentials belonging to 1,400 companies around the world, offering for sale more than 80 million stolen usernames and passwords for bank accounts, online payment accounts, mobile phone accounts, retailer account…

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