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Popular cybercrime Genesis Market shut down by police in Operation Cookie Monster

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A total of 24 people have been arrested in the UK, including two men in Grimsby. Photo: NCA

Martina Lindberg

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The criminal marketplace was selling roughly 80 million credentials and digital fingerprints from over two million people.

Genesis Market, one of the biggest online marketplaces selling stolen credentials, has been taken down in an international operation dubbed Operation Cookie Monster. The operation was led by the FBI and Dutch National Police, and involved 17 countries. According to the DOJ, it was also one of the most prolific

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