A Thornhill man is scheduled to appear in court Monday charged with selling three billion pieces of stolen digital information belonging to people around the world — including online user names and passwords — through the infamous website Leakedsource.com. Jordan Evan Bloom, 27, is facing rare Canadian Criminal Code charges including trafficking in identity information, mischief to data, unauthorized use of computers and possession of property obtained by crime.Before being shut down by police in January 2017, LeakedSource.com offered visitors access to the three billion records that were harvested from computer security breaches around the world, reportedly including data leaks from Twitter, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Weebly, Foursquare, Tumblr, Rambler.ru, MySpace and AdultFriendFinder.Once decrypted and aggregated, the information was available by keyword search and accessible for a fee. “(Leakedsources.com) was a middle man between the dark web and the internet,” said RCMP Staff Sgt. Maurizio Rosa who supervised the investigation. “A person would log into the site and with a fee, would be able to look through the site for any information about usernames or passwords to be able to get them.”Bloom, police allege, administered the website for which he earned $247,000 for “trafficking identity information.”He could not be reached for comment Sunday.Bloom was swept up in the RCMP national cybercrime division’s “Project Adoration” investigation, launched in early 2016 when the fledgling RCMP cybercrime division was tipped off by an international partner about a Canadian connection to the highly secretive Leakedsource.com website.The tip: billions of pieces of personal data harvested from corporate security breaches were sitting on computer servers in Quebec.The database contained personal information on several thousand Canadians in addition to millions more around the world, Rosa said, declining to identif ...
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