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Breach Notification Website LeakedSource Allegedly Raided By Feds (csoonline.com)
Breach notification service LeakedSource may be permanently shut down after the owner of the site was raided earlier this week. "At the start of the new year, LeakedSource indexed more than 3 billion records," reports CSO Online. "Their collection is the result of information sharing between a number of sources, including those who hacked the data themselves. Access to the full archive requires a membership fee." From the report: On the OGFlip forum Thursday, a user posted vague details about the LeakedSource raid, but Salted Hash has been unable to verify the claims. The U.S. Department of Justice will not comment, refusing to confirm or deny any investigations related to LeakedSource. The operators of the notification service itself have been offline for several days, and the LeakedSource website stopped working late Tuesday evening. The message from OGF reads as follows: âoeLeakedsource is down forever and won't be coming back. Owner raided early this morning. Wasn't arrested, but all SSD's got taken, and Leakedsource servers got subpoena'd and placed under federal investigation. If somehow he recovers from this and launches LS again, then I'll be wrong. But I am not wrong. (sic)"
in like 10 years lol
It's unclear that a raid occurred, and it's being suggested that this may be the result of trolls making up a story. It's also very unclear why they would have been the target of a raid, though I can think of a few ideas. It seems like this is one situation where we ought to wait a bit until the details are clearer before believing that a raid occurred. I can also think of why criminals might want to create a hoax like this, too, due to the nature of the site and how it might be harmful to them for it to exist. It just seems like details are so few that there's not much useful or constructive to be said absent more credible information to explain the downtime.
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Not surprised they got raided. LeakedSource always seemed to give me a sort of rotten vibe, that something was off. The fact they wanted money upfront and seemed to be double-dealing made me wonder about them. At least Troy Hunt's alternative is both free and seems way more legitimate, if not as comprehensive.
In Donald Trump's war against the CROOKED Media.
Get out while you still can.
This would have been somewhat shocking if it had taken place a week ago. But now it would be shocking if this king of thing don't happen. Welcome to TrumpUSA.
the party in strret Previously thought interest in having worthwhile. So I rotting corpse I know it sux0rs,
Feds got your tongue?
So a journalist published an article based on a forum post and pastebin link... that sounds about right... modern-day media... go figure. No wonder the term fake news exists.
this should have happened in 2015.
There will probably be a lot more raids like this in the future. And though Trump appointed a bunch of zealous, happy to have a job at 60+, under qualified dumb-asses to show blue collared America what the 1950s were like, aka all was well with white only Cola pinup girls 24/7; that's what my parents remember from their disillusioned childhood anyway; thank God for the Pledge of Allegiance in schools to keep children from the dangers of communism)....has nothing do do with "God" or "patriotism" people. Anyway, lots of raids and red scares coming our way. Encrypt your stuff before uploading to anything. Hell, doing on your computer anyway. When you got that much data to go through, if all of it was encrypted, there isn't enough time to get past statute of limitations, if they even know what they are looking at in the first place. And because of that, Trump's "ever so wise" cyber security guy (his website hadn't been updated since 2012 and is BSD based) will probably make encryption illegal or backdoors in everything, especially Facebook software (not like there isn't already). Grab a copy of Linux and learn and be data conscious while you still can. Hell, even the EPA and other organizations started putting their documents on Canadian servers because they are terrified at what could happen to it. I don't even use USA cloud services anymore.
The main moral to take from this story is that if you are going to upset people who have legal powers, make sure that your data is held in a way that is beyond their powers to get at. One of the more interesting possibilities lies in the 'Principality of Sealand' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... whose legal status is... interesting. If your data was there and you upset Uncle Sam enough, would he try to invade - and would the UK let him!!
Despite what it says in TFS, the message from OGF does not say "âoeLeakedsource is down forever...". There's a double-quote where /. says the source reads "âoe".
How can so much of the rest of the web properly handle text that falls outside basic ASCII yet /. continues to mangle it?
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This "breach notification site" SOLD password caches to third parties - and even cracked the password hashes before selling them. Why doesn't the summary mention this? This site sold people's credentials passwords to spammers, fraudsters and other malicious actors: https://arstechnica.co.uk/secu...
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I don't get it, why were they raided? What is wrong with archives of public information, like archive.org? I assume the info on LeakedSource was in fact leaked and therefore public?
Let's see. First off, thanks for the lovely copy-pasta. Can't wait to start trolling folks with it. Second, "your" is possessive. The contraction for "you are" that you're too fucking stupid to understand is Y O U (APOSTROPHE) R E you goddamn RETARD. Third, if you're over sixty, your Alzheimer's is kicking in hard. You might want to get that checked. Fourth, your post is a prime example of a large part of the problem with the world. Specifically, stupid and delusional people like you are too stupid and delusional to know they are stupid and delusional. Fifth, I think my favorite part of your rambling, incoherent, barely intelligible diatribe--if we can fairly call it that--is your claim that you can write an encryption program to foil the NSA. Seriously, anon, thanks for the laughs. Bruce and I will look back on this some day, wax nostalgic, and have a light chuckle over the fond memories of your inanity. I would explain why it's so funny but alas, you're retarded and incapable of understanding so it's a futile effort.
And finally, you really ought to shut the fuck up. As the quote goes: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." You, anon, have removed all doubt. Clearly Richard Spencer's dick is the smartest thing that ever came out of your mouth. I feel sorry for you.