Cybercrime has seen a staggering rise over recent years, with past estimates putting it at a worldwide cost of $10.5 trillion in 2025. Thankfully, today the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) and Europol put the kibosh on the LeakBase database, a hacker forum operating across 14 different countries.
According to the press releases, the authorities seized "users’ accounts, posts, credit details, private messages, and IP logs" of 142,000 members and their 215,000 messages. LeakBase was apparently a public forum in the English language, both factors that easily attract buyers and sellers of cybercrime software and stolen accounts.
