The Public Prosecution Service (OM) has demanded a three-year prison sentence against Heerenveen for a 35-year-old man. He sold the personal information of millions of people on Telegram.
The man reportedly offered more than 1,250 advertisements containing personal information of 250 million people for sale on the chat app. It sold, among other things, logins, passwords and phone numbers.
This data is of interest to cyber criminals because they can use it for fraud. For this reason, many transactions are performed online through this data.
One of the biggest traders in the Netherlands called Han Solo and jedihans online. Justice thinks that the person behind these names is Frisian. He was arrested on June 29.
The seller accepted gift cards and payments in virtual currencies such as bitcoin. Frisian cryptocurrencies seized. They were worth about 190,000 euros at the time. The public prosecutor also wants him to repay 300,000 euros of the money earned from him.
Source: NU
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