WWH Club Hacked by FBI, Forum Creators Charged

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Source: https://www.courtwatch.news/p/exclus...riminal-online
In short:
- The FBI issued a search warrant for the WWH Club servers , which for some reason were located in the American company Digital Ocean;
- The forum was hacked and the FBI had full administrative privileges - they gained access to thousands of emails, passwords and full account activity;
- The forum administrators and moderators are Pavel Kublitsky, a Russian citizen, and Alexander Khodyrev from Kazakhstan;
- Both forum administrators were granted asylum in the United States two years ago upon arrival there;
- Both administrators are currently facing trial on charges of managing a darknet forum, conspiracy and unauthorized access to more than 15 devices;
- The site administrators had access to view all user transactions, and were prohibited from working in the CIS;
- Court documents include details of how an FBI agent personally enrolled in one of the "how to steal from credit cards" courses and paid for it in bitcoin, participating in them for six months with 50 other students;
- Kublitsky purchased a luxury condo in Florida, as well as a 2023 Corvette from a car dealer in South Florida for $110k cash;
- Kublitsky has been arrested, there is no data on Khodyrev;
- both administrators were officially unemployed throughout this time.
Kublitsky and Khodyrev have
54 nicknames. To date, investigators have determined that the owner and creator of the forum has two usemames with administrative functions: " WWH " and " Mans77. " In addition to the forum owner and creator, it appears there are several
other top administrators who operate the site and receive a portion of the generated revenue. One of those top administrators operates under the usemame " Makein. " For the reasons described below, there is probable cause to believe that KUBLITSKII and KHODYREV both serve as administrators of WWH and share the Makein usemame.
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Thus, it appears that both accounts mailto:[email protected] and mailto:[email protected] -were used by KUBLITSKII in connection with the alias of AngelBatista .
Hello to other admins and moderators:
55. On April 29, 2021 , a United States Magistrate Judge sitting in the MDFL authorized four federal search warrants covering approximately 70 email accounts associated to administrators and staff who worked together to facilitate ***** See 6:21-mj-1332 (TBS); 6:21-mj-1333 (TBS); 6:21-mj-1334 (TBS); 6:21-mj-1335 (TBS). Based on the information gathered from those warrants, onJuly 25, 2023 , a different United States Magistrate Judge sitting in the MDFL authorized four follow-up federal search warrants covering 25 more email accounts associated with the main WWH Club administrators . See 8:23-mj-18 (SPF); 8:23-mj-19 (SPF); 8:23-mj-20 (SPF); 8:23-mj-21 (SPF).
Hello to all users of the BVH guarantor and their marketplace:
59. Based on a review of seized backend data pertaining to ********** , in or around May 2019, Makein (on ********* *) sent a message advising a ********** asking the user to send payment for an advertisement to a Bitcoin address ending in -qN2Z9. Blockchain analysis revealed -qN2Z9, as well as other Bitcoin addresses provided by Makein on **********, were clustered with over 100 Bitcoin addresses (“CLUSTER-2”). Between in or around July 10, 2015, and June 22, 2024
CLUSTER-2 received nearly 4,000 individual deposits totaling approximately 152
Bitcoin, or approximately $961,000.
Pay special attention to the dates - the last one is June 22, 2024!
Court Documents: https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...672601.1.0.pdf