Police said the 'dangerous' Genesis Market had been dismantled, but it is still selling hacker products.
Officers from Britain's National Crime Agency arrest a suspect during raids in Grimsby last monthA hacker marketplace used to steal accounts for Netflix, Amazon and other services is still active, despite police saying it had been taken down.
The service was considered one of the biggest criminal facilitators, with more than two million stolen online identities for sale at the time of the police action.Several agencies around the world celebrated the website "takedown", announcing that 119 people had been arrested and describing the criminal service as "dismantled".
Mr Noel-Tagoe praised police for seizing the mainstream internet version of the market, but says the operation was more of a disruption than a takedown. "It is true that the Genesis administrators quickly responded on hacking forums stating that they would be back online shortly with improvements, and the darknet site is still accessible," said John Fokker, head of threat intelligence at Trellix.Police did not comment on the darknet site remaining online at the time of the "takedown".
"Although a dark web version of the site remains active, the volume of stolen data and users has been significantly reduced. I have no doubt that the operation damaged criminal trust in Genesis Market," Paul Foster, deputy director of the NCA's National Cyber Crime Unit, told the BBC.
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