The Greek Cypriot Police confiscated servers that hosted websites that sold personal data of American citizens and were a product of hacking, in a joint operation with the FBI.
The head of Cyber Crime Unit, Andreas Anastasiades, has told CNA that the special branch of the police was established in September 2007 to combat hacking activities, child pornography, racism and fraud committed via electronic communication and the internet.
“The operation revealed that around 24 million US citizens had their data stolen though the servers we shut down,” Anastasiades told the Cyprus News Agency.
“All the stolen data was being kept on four illegal websites registered to Cypriot IP addresses,” he said, adding that: “Thanks to our cooperation with the FBI, we have now shut down all the servers hosting the illegal websites.” (Souce CNA)
