one of the world s biggest criminal marketplaces, used by online fraudsters to buy passwords, has been shut down following a global police investigation. known as genesis market, it sold login details, ip addresses and other personal data, allowing criminals to log into bank accounts. 2a people have been arrested in the uk. with more on this, we can talk to our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford. tell us more about the latest on the story. more than 120 people arrested worldwide in this operation, which is been run by dutch police and the fbi in the united states and also police didn t new zealand, australia, canada, the uk, with the national agency took the lead and also all across europe. it s been a very big operation, running for around 36 hours now. the idea was to take this website, genesis market out of action and also to arrest many of the people suspected of using it to bleed back in very large numbers. it s thought about 2 million peoples dater was for sale
the data on this website. that s the importance that was viewed, tickets reflected in the shared number of very sophisticated law enforcement agencies across those 17 country. that s why they were all involved. thank you. here in the uk, 21 people have been convicted for their involvement, in the largest ever child sex abuse case, investigated by west midlands police. thirteen have already been jailed. 0ur correspondent phil mackie interviewed senior investigating 0fficerjoanne floyd on the complexity and outcome of the case. let s take a listen. the complexity and the horrendous nature of it spanned so many different levels, not only in terms of the vulnerability of the children, how young they were from when the offending first started for them. but also in terms of the prolonged nature of it, the daily nature of it, the fact that they were exposed to such harm at such a high level
one of the world s biggest criminal marketplaces, used by online fraudsters to buy passwords, has been shut down following a global police investigation. known as genesis market, it sold login details, ip addresses and other personal data, allowing criminals to log into bank accounts. 2a people have been arrested in the uk. with more on this, we can talk to our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford. tell us more about the latest on the story. more than 120 people arrested worldwide in this operation, which is been run by dutch police and the fbi in the united states and also police didn t new zealand, australia, canada, the uk, with the national agency took the lead and also all across europe. it s been a very big operation, running for around 36 hours now. the idea was to take this website, genesis market