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French Officer Caught Selling Access To State Surveillance System On the Darkweb (zdnet.com)
An anonymous reader writes: "A French police officer has been charged and arrested last week for selling confidential data on the dark web in exchange for Bitcoin," reports ZDNet. French authorities caught him after they took down the "Black Hand" dark web marketplace. Sifting through the marketplace data, they found French police documents sold on the site. All the documents had unique identifiers, which they used to track down the French police officer who was selling the data under the name of Haurus.
Besides selling access to official docs, they also found he ran a service to track the location of mobile devices based on a supplied phone number. He advertised the system as a way to track spouses or members of competing criminal gangs. Investigators believe Haurus was using the French police resources designed with the intention to track criminals for this service. He also advertised a service that told buyers if they were tracked by French police and what information officers had on them.
Besides selling access to official docs, they also found he ran a service to track the location of mobile devices based on a supplied phone number. He advertised the system as a way to track spouses or members of competing criminal gangs. Investigators believe Haurus was using the French police resources designed with the intention to track criminals for this service. He also advertised a service that told buyers if they were tracked by French police and what information officers had on them.
My complete surprise. NEVER saw this one coming.
Let's see. About 10 million Slashdot posters have been predicting this.
for these kinds of crimes... you have to give credit to a China-like approach: swift bullet to the head to deter all future people in power who might be tempted.
Breakdown of trust in the government strikes at the heart of society. Some things you can't be tolerant of.
He advertised the system as a way to track spouses.
Ah oui, but we are French! We love freely and let our spouses roam, but we will not accept corruption in our peace officers. Away with you. Monsieur!