Admin of Black Market Site Dealing Stolen Credentials Sentenced to Almost 4 Years in US Prison
A US Senior District Judge sentenced a Moldavian citizen to 42 months in federal
prison for his role as an administrator of E-Root Marketplace, a resource used
to sell credentials belonging to people and companies in the United States.
When accounts and devices are compromised, and hackers steal credentials and
gain direct access, they rarely use those resources themselves. The credentials
end up on the black market and are sold to other criminals, who then use them to
hack into devices and net