Defiant Tech firm who operated LeakedSource pleads guilty

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), announced that the company behind LeakedSource, Defiant Tech Inc., pleads guilty in Canada.

Defiant Tech Inc., the company behind the LeakedSource.com website, pleaded guilty in Canada.

The LeakedSource website was launched in late 2015, in January 2017 the popular data breach notification website has been raided by feds.

It reported some of the largest data breaches, including the ones that affected Last.fm, Rambler.ru, FriendFinder Networks, LinkedIn, and MySpace.

In December 2017, the Canadian man Jordan Evan Bloom (27) was charged with data leak of 3 billion hacked accounts, the man was running a website to collect personal data and login credentials from the victims.

The man was charged as part of an investigation dubbed “Project Adoration,” aiming at trafficking in personal data, unauthorized use of computers, and possession of an illicitly obtained property.

The RCMP alleges that Bloom was the administrators of the LeakedSource.com website that operated through his company Defiant Tech.

LeakedSource offered for sale access to data gathered data from the victims of security breaches, sometimes buying it from hackers.

For $2 a day, a subscriber at LeakedSource, had the possibility to obtain the details on individuals by entering his email address or username. LeakedSource was also cracking the associated passwords when it was possible. The website was very popular among the users of the HackForums.net.

“A guilty plea was entered in court today by Defiant Tech Inc., to the charges of Trafficking In Identity Information and Possession of Property Obtained By Crime a year and a half after charges were laid into the RCMP’s cybercrime investigation dubbed Project “Adoration”. ” reads the press release published by RCMP.

“LeakedSource.com had a database of approximately three billion personal identity records and associated passwords that could be purchased for a small fee. Defiant Tech Inc. was operating the LeakedSource.com website and the company earned approximately $247,000 from trafficking identity information. “

The arrest of Bloom is the result of a joint effort of Canadian authorities, FBI and Dutch National Police.

According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Defiant Tech made around CAN$247,000 (US$183,000) from his illegal activities.

“We are pleased with this latest development,” said Superintendent Mike Maclean, Officer in Charge Criminal Operations of the RCMP National Division. “I am immensely proud of this outcome as combatting cybercrime is an operational priority for us.”

According to the experts, Bloom didn’t operate the website alone, at least another US citizen was involved, but none was charged for this.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – cybercrime, LeakedSource)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.