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RaidForums existed for years as a bottom-of–the-barrel hacking forum, where users would often trade or freely distribute data that was sourced from long ago and publicly reported hacks. Generally, the members were apparently lower skilled hackers, taking lists of usernames and passwords dumped on the site and using those for their own gains. The site included data from all around the world and for all different sorts of targets, including telecos, tech companies, and websites. On the site, users could purchase tokens with cryptocurrency that they then used to unlock access to databases uploaded by the site’s members, and purchase different levels of membership to the site such as “MVP” and “God” ranks. These then provided more consistent access to databases and other site features.Do you know anything else about the seizure? We'd love to hear from you. Using a non-work phone or computer, you can contact Joseph Cox securely on Signal on +44 20 8133 5190, Wickr on josephcox, OTR chat on jfcox@jabber.ccc.de, or email joseph.cox@vice.com.
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