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Canadian Charged With Running LeakedSource.com, Selling Stolen Info (reuters.com)

Posted by msmash on from the end-of-road dept.

A Canadian man accused of operating the LeakedSource.com website, a major repository of stolen online credentials, has been arrested and charged with trafficking in billions of stolen personal identity records, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said on Monday. From a report: The site, which was shut down in early 2017, had collected details from a string of major breaches and made them accessible and searchable for a fee. The man, 27-year-old Jordan Evan Bloom, is due to appear in a Toronto court on Monday to hear charges that as administrator of the site he collected some C$247,000 from the sale of stolen records and associated passwords.

27 comments

  1. Yay! by davecb · · Score: 2, Funny

    I love it when the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (colloquially "the horsemen") catch crooked nerds. They look so surprised when the horse shoulders their door out of the way!

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  2. Oh shit by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 1

    The man, 27-year-old Jordan Evan Bloom, is due to appear in a Toronto court on Monday .

    Oh shit, Jordan got arrested, eh?

    Posted from the country up north where Americans think we all live in a tiny village and only have one road going from coast to coast.

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    1. Re:Oh shit by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 1

      The man, 27-year-old Jordan Evan Bloom, is due to appear in a Toronto court on Monday .

      Oh shit, Jordan got arrested, eh?

      Posted from the country up north where Americans think we all live in a tiny village and only have one road going from coast to coast.

      You built a second road now?

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    2. Re:Oh shit by vux984 · · Score: 1

      To be fair, I think there's a little segment between Thunderbay and Nipigon were there is only 1 road connecting east to west.

      Everywhere else there is at least two.

      (I think Labrador can only be reached on one road; and there are very few... possibly just one road to the north coast (their
      s one to Tuktoyaktuk (from Whitehorse)).

    3. Re:Oh shit by sycodon · · Score: 1

      You have one trail going from coast to coast.

      I mean to hike it one day.

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    4. Re:Oh shit by alexo · · Score: 4, Funny

      (I think Labrador can only be reached on one road; and there are very few... possibly just one road to the north coast (their
      s one to Tuktoyaktuk (from Whitehorse)).

      You know that you've been programming for too long when the first thing that bugs you about the statement above is not the presence of spelling/grammatical mistakes but that the parentheses are unbalanced.

    5. Re:Oh shit by ScentCone · · Score: 1

      You know that you've been programming for too long when the first thing that bugs you about the statement above is not the presence of spelling/grammatical mistakes but that the parentheses are unbalanced.

      How could you even read it? My parser threw an error.

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    6. Re:Oh shit by Major_Disorder · · Score: 1

      Oh shit, Jordan got arrested, eh?

      Posted from the country up north where Americans think we all live in a tiny village and only have one road going from coast to coast.

      Also we all live in igloos.
      Although the igloo is a great place to to keep the server rack.

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    7. Re:Oh shit by 110010001000 · · Score: 1

      Well Toronto is the capital of Canada, so I am not surprised he is from there.

    8. Re:Oh shit by JustOK · · Score: 1

      No, they just painted a yellow line down the center. Now they have one road from coast to coast, and a SECOND on from coast to coast.

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    9. Re:Oh shit by Mashiki · · Score: 1

      Toronto just thinks they're the capital of Canada.

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    10. Re:Oh shit by Baron_Yam · · Score: 1

      >only have one road going from coast to coast

      We DO have only one road going from coast to coast... the aptly titled 'trans-Canada highway'.

      Most of our roads don't even cross municipal boundaries!

    11. Re:Oh shit by knorthern+knight · · Score: 1

      Question: How does a Torontonian screw in a light bulb?

      Answer: They simply hold the bulb up to the socket, and Canada revolves around them.

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  3. I thought the URL was "github.com" by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 1

    >> LeakedSource.com website

    I thought the URL was "github.com"

  4. Was it worth it? by MoralCharacter · · Score: 2

    So he ran a website facilitating the commerce of identity theft - in the order of billions of records handled. In that time he managed to make just north of $120k per year (USD $96.6k/year). (This based on https://krebsonsecurity.com/20... saying the site began selling data in Oct 2015)

  5. Information wants to be free! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Free Aaron Schwartz!

    1. Re:Information wants to be free! by davecb · · Score: 1

      Free Aaron Schwartz!

      Hmmn, perhaps we can petition God for a new life for him. Maybe upload him to one of IBM's Watson computers?

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    2. Re:Information wants to be free! by Hal_Porter · · Score: 1

      He invented Reddit. Any digital afterlife he gets must be an eternity of suffering.

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  6. Oh damn - they used his MIDDLE name too! by wardrich86 · · Score: 2

    He's gonna be in DEEP trouble!

    1. Re:Oh damn - they used his MIDDLE name too! by ChunderDownunder · · Score: 1

      I was confused. The headline said he was Canadian but the summary said he was from Jordan, on the other side of the globe.

  7. Punishment. by sycodon · · Score: 1

    Tie him to a tree.

    Everyone of his victims get one whack at him with a small bat.

    I'm betting it will add up.

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  8. Not the source by MidSpeck · · Score: 1

    If your credentials are stolen and out there, then they are already available. One could easily get the same sources that he collected and have the entire database for free.
    Other sites will say: yes, your password has been stolen, but you might have no idea which one, or from which time frame without being able to see the password.

  9. But I've been hearing for over a decade now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Information wants to be free.Why are people defending the lack of transparency? Serious question.

  10. Canada man... by LeftCoastThinker · · Score: 1

    Canada man, now giving Florida man a run for his money as the top contender...

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  11. Last time he's buying a website on Flippa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    n/t

  12. Throw the book at this motherfucker by sydbarrett74 · · Score: 1

    I hope he gets good practice stretching his anal sphincters...

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