14 DAY TRIAL // The LeakedSource site, known for aggregating data breach information, has gone offline. There is no official information regarding the reasons why this happened, aside from rumors that a police raid was involved.
The site has been down for a few hours now, and visitors have been unable to look up account details that LeakedSource has been collecting over time. These pertained to multiple data breaches, so the information there is particularly useful for everyone.
It’s not only the site that has gone dark but also the associated social media accounts, which have been suspended, pushing the entire situation deeper into the unknown.
Complete silence
While there is no official information on what exactly has been the source of this problem, a Pastebin post made shortly after LeakedSource went down claims the site has been raided. Furthermore, it says that law enforcement agencies seized all the hosted data, while LeakedSource servers got subpoenaed and placed under federal investigation.
“Leakedsource is down forever and won't be coming back. Owner raided early this morning. Wasn't arrested, but all SSD's got taken,” the post reads. This, as mentioned before, has not been confirmed by authorities or any source from the website.
There are many questions as to why law enforcement would want to take down the site. LeakedSource did not hack sites on its own but used the dark web to fish out data and create a massive database. The site made it easier for everyone to see just how many accounts leak online and the extent of the data breaches across the world.
Questionable business
While there have been numerous critiques directed toward LeakedSource for letting anyone check out the account credentials hackers dropped on the dark web, instead of firing off millions of emails to inform account owners directly, there has not been any talk about taking down the site for doing anything illegal.
Some questioned, however, just how ethical it was for the site to sell access to this information to anyone. While some people wanted to check their own data in there, there were certainly many who wanted to make darker use of it.
Hackers could very well go the easy route and use LeakedSource to gain access to information on particular sources if they wanted, which of course, is quite risky for those involved, no matter how much good they proclaimed to do.