During an international operation, law enforcement announced the liquidation of the SSNDOB market, where the personal data of at least about 24 million US citizens was sold for cryptocurrencies. This was announced by the US Department of Justice.

Personal data available for purchase on the platform included victims’ names, dates of birth, and social security numbers. According to law enforcement, the illegal activities brought SSNDOB operators more than $19 million.

The Ministry of Justice stated that the marketplace administrators advertise on darknet forums and use fictitious names, servers in different countries to ensure anonymity and only accept cryptocurrencies.

Chainalysis analysts said that when registering on the platform, the user receives an address to transfer crypto assets associated with their account:

“In other words, users can fund their accounts through SSNDOB instead of buying directly from their wallets. The market has primarily accepted bitcoin and is also known to work with Litecoin.”

Chainalysis said that since April 2015, SSNDOB operators have received nearly $22 million in bitcoin in more than 100,000 transactions.

Most of the funds that analysts track came from centralized crypto exchanges and P2P platforms and other services. About 10% of these were sent from cryptocurrency ATMs.

Recall that in April, the German police seized the servers of the Hydra darknet market and seized 543 BTC.