France arrests brothers suspected of running site with nude images of 17,000 women and girls
Investigators seized 700,000 euros in cryptoassets and say the site sold stolen intimate images of more than 17,000 women and girls.
- French police arrested two brothers, aged 21 and 25, on Tuesday in northern France for allegedly operating NudeLeaksTeens, a platform containing stolen intimate images of more than 17,000 women and girls.
- Operating by selling "packs" of stolen content, the platform sourced images through social media hacking, "grooming," and "revenge porn," while encouraging users to provide victim identifying information in exchange for cryptocurrency.
- Investigators seized $782,530 in cryptoassets including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and USDT, while the site claimed to host 6,200 intimate images from hacked Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook accounts.
- Displaying FBI and French police cyber unit warnings, the three websites are now closed; Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau urged victims to contact the French police cybercrime unit.
- The investigation involved coordinated efforts between France and the United States, with Johanna Brousse, who led the French cybercrime probe, stating "L'impunité en ligne n'est pas une fatalité.
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France and the United States have dismantled the NudeLeakTeens platform, involved in the trafficking of stolen intimate images, affecting more than 17,000 victims, including minors. Two brothers, alleged administrators, have...
France and the United States close sites for selling stolen intimate photos to more than 17,000 women and minors.
The platform released nude shots of 17,000 women and also minors. The pictures and videos were partly blackmailed or stolen by hacker attacks on social media. EIn Brüderpaar was arrested.
A joint French-US operation has shut down three websites linked to the NudeLeaksTeens platform, which sold private sexual content stolen from more than 17,000 women around the world, the Paris prosecutor's office said on Wednesday.
Two brothers aged 21 and 25 were arrested on Tuesday 6 October in the North of France. They are suspected of having been the administrators of the "NudeLeaksTeens" service. On this platform, the intimate contents of 17,000 women, including minors, were published. - "NudeLeaksTeens": two brothers arrested in the North, the intimate contents stolen from 17,000 women in the world (Police, justice and other facts).
The three sites administered by these two brothers aged 21 and 25 from northern France have been closed, the Paris Public Prosecutor's Office announced on 7 October.
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