One of the largest hacker forums in the world has been seized by the US DoJ

LeakBase, a forum for global hackers with over a hundred thousand members, has been seized by the United States Department of Justice (DoJ).

"The forum had an enormous and continuously updated archive of hacked databases including many from high profile attacks, including hundreds of millions of account credentials", the DoJ says.

It claims the site had over 142,000 members and over 215,000 messages. It reports that LeakBase was used to sell information from stolen databases (explaining the name)...