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Dark cyber network closed

Authorities have closed in on a website used to peddle credit card details and bank log-ins and shut it down, the BBC reports.

Darkmarket, an international forum which has been described as "a one-stop shop for the online criminal", is said to have caused millions of pounds worth of damage.

According to Sharon Lemon, deputy director Serious Organised Crime Agency, the network, which had members based in the UK, the US and Germany, was an online security supermarket.

She told the BBC: "You can go to the forum and engage in criminal activity quite freely. You can buy any product you want, you can sell any product you want."

Some 2,000 users were registered on the forum, which Lemon says was not made up of geeks but "serious and organised criminals" intent on stealing people's money.

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