Hacker arrested in Ukraine for selling billions of stolen credentials

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https://www.zdnet.com/article/hacker-arrested-in-ukraine-for-selling-billions-of-stolen-credentials/

By Catalin Cimpanu
ZDNet
Zero Day
May 19, 2020

The Ukrainian Secret Service (SSU) announced today the arrest of a hacker known 
as Sanix, responsible for selling billions of hacked credentials on hacking 
forums and Telegram channels.

The SSU says it arrested Sanix in Ivano-Frankivsk, a city in western Ukraine. 
Authorities did not release the hacker's name.

Sanix has a long history on underground hacking forums, where he was first 
spotted operating as far back as 2018.

The individual was what security experts would call a data broker. He collected 
data leaked from hacked companies and assembled the information in large lists 
of usernames and passwords.

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