FBI shuts down notorious cybercrime marketplace Genesis Market.

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FBI shuts down notorious cybercrime marketplace Genesis Market.
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Genesis Market, one of the world's largest criminal marketplaces used by online fraudsters to buy passwords, has been shut down in a global law enforcement crackdown. The website sold login details, IP addresses, and other data that made up victims' "digital fingerprints". Law enforcement agencies from 17 countries were involved in the raids, which led to the arrest of 120 people. The NCA believes there were about two million victims worldwide with tens of thousands of them in the UK.

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