Dutch police shut down ‘revenge porn’ site

The hague: Dutch police said they have arrested three men for stealing explicit pictures of girls and young women from their cloud data, and shut down a globally notorious “revenge porn” site.

After a year-long complex cybercrime investigation following a complaint by a woman in March 2017, the police said they had found “enormous amounts of women’s personal data and images” on the three men’s phones and computers.

“With the confiscation of a server, the police have taken a hackers forum offline,” they said in a statement identifying the forum as Anon-IB.

The hackers were mainly interested “in nude photographs and videos of girls and young women, which they

With the confiscation of a server, the police have taken a hackers forum offline. Dutch police

stole from the clouds of their victims and shared with one another in other more hidden locations on the Internet,” it added.

Those arrested are aged 28 to 35 and come from the Dutch cities of Heerlen, Culemborg and Groningen.

Data from two other suspects has also been seized, but the other two men have not yet been arrested.

They had all been “able to access email boxes, social media accounts and repositories, such as clouds, belonging to hundreds of women” which had not been properly secured, the Dutch police said in a statement.

They procured “sexual images of a few hundred women without the victims noticing,” they added.

The suspects had all got to know each other through using Anon-IB, where they “asked for help in obtaining images of specific girls”, the police said in a statement.

Once the images were found, they retreated to smaller groups “in hidden places in the web to share the stolen footage”.