Cracked/Nulled Seizure

[wellington]

See this morning 4 days Cracked / Nulled was seized and adjacent payment processors (one of which we checked out so I guess our details are in the hands of the feds - no use anyway for what we wanted - wasn't compliant for tracing).

Anyway I heard those names and thought to myself I haven't heard those names since the days of cracked Wordpress themes.

Some serious lengthy time being thrown around with the charges

 

[Houdini]

Any link to what was cracked? I don't know what it is you talk about?

 

[Clank]

Houdini said:
Any link to what was cracked? I don't know what it is you talk about?
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Both were online hacking forums.

 

[Houdini]

okay, thank you, then i's not a good idea to post any links here.

 

[wellington]

Clank said:
Both were online hacking forums.
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Well - technically they cracked/nulled plugins/themes and it was free.... That's at least what i remembered them for, and that was near on a decade ago.

 

[Clank]

wellington said:
Well - technically they cracked/nulled plugins/themes and it was free.... That's at least what i remembered them for, and that was near on a decade ago.
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Probably they started with themes and transitioned to hacking.

 

[wellington]

Anyway, more importantly https://sellix.io/ was seized (Crypto Payment Processor).

We established an account with them a few years ago but didn't process/use so likely caught up in the data-harvesting, and i am sure others also.

https://www.trustpilot.com/review/sellix.io

 

[JohnnyDoe]

wellington said:
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They improved the graphics! Lovely to see that citizens' money is well spent, and that LE is always protecting the most vulnerable members of our society.

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[JackAlabama]

JohnnyDoe said:
They improved the graphics! Lovely to see that citizens' money is well spent, and that LE is always protecting the most vulnerable members of our society.
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I bet they paid the graphics contractor 100k for this. 😀

 

[ilke]

wellington said:
Anyway, more importantly https://sellix.io/ was seized (Crypto Payment Processor).

We established an account with them a few years ago but didn't process/use so likely caught up in the data-harvesting, and i am sure others also.

https://www.trustpilot.com/review/sellix.io
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So what did Sellix actually do that was a violation? Because I think it was just a crypto gateway and store platform similar to Sellpass, no custody of funds and not subject to usual financial KYC guidelines, since it was just the tech provider. Might have remembered incorrectly though.

Had an account there but I doubt I used their processing either

 

[wellington]

ilke said:
So what did Sellix actually do that was a violation? Because I think it was just a crypto gateway and store platform similar to Sellpass, no custody of funds and not subject to usual financial KYC guidelines, since it was just the tech provider. Might have remembered incorrectly though.

Had an account there but I doubt I used their processing either
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Apparently cracked/nulled used it to process payments.

So the way it occurs is they create a tracking system which updates your store backend when the payment is verified.

So the DOJ is evidently stating they were part of the activity.

But had this been something like say erm, Stripe, the DOJ wouldn't seize or indict, they'd fine, and collect specific data, so its evidently more a fishing exercise (gathering data) as the wallet(s) are all stored in the server side against companies/people both side(s).

Sucks for the company and i suspect they will do some prison time, for minimal action(s) and surely no criminal intent (as they did use AML on-chain verification).

 

[cionide]

The owners apparently owned StarkRDP (seized) and rdp.sh (not yet seized). If anyone's using either of those, you probably want take appropriate actions.

 

[wellington]

What are they?

 

[wellington]

Ah servers - owned by a German company it seems

 

[cionide]

wellington said:
Ah servers - owned by a German company it seems
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Not entirely - VPS Linux and Remote Desktop. Very cheap for what they are though.