a german passport. and not encrypted data in some non european passports can sometimes also be accessed. the passport forger finally gets back to us. he says please send the money to the bitcoin address below so he can get started. this is where we break off contact and then hand over our research to the german authorities we have no idea whether we would actually have received the forged biometric passport that the seller promised. when stolen data appears on the dark web hackers have usually acquired it by exploiting a vulnerability in a software program it takes about a week for these security loopholes to be discovered and closed. by then it's usually too late to help those whose data have been compromised data