A Canadian company has pleaded guilty to cyber crimes.
Defiant Tech Inc. entered a guilty plea to trafficking in identity information and possession of property obtained by crime.
The charges were laid a year ago after an investigation that began three years ago.
That’s when the RCMP learned that the website LeakedSource.com was being hosted by servers located in Quebec.
The site had a database of approximately three billion personal identity records and associated passwords that could be purchased for a small fee.
Defiant Tech Inc. was operating the LeakedSource.com website and the company earned approximately $247,000 from trafficking identity information.
The RCMP thanked the Dutch National Police and the FBI for their “essential” assistance on the investigation.
