International Operation Shuts Down Illicit Photo Sales Platform

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French and US authorities shut down a platform selling stolen intimate images, arresting two brothers.

Law enforcement agencies in France and the United States dismantled illicit websites that traded in stolen private photographs. Authorities in northern France detained two brothers, aged twenty-one and twenty-five, during the coordinated operation. The platforms had targeted more than seventeen thousand women and girls.

The coordinated cross-border raid targeted operations based in both France and the United States.
The seized websites commercialized unauthorized intimate imagery affecting over seventeen thousand female victims.
Two brothers residing in northern France were taken into police custody.

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The dissemination of non-consensual intimate imagery has become a major focus for international cybercrime units, prompting closer cross-border cooperation between North American and European authorities.

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Law enforcement in France and the United States collaborated to close websites selling unauthorized intimate images and arrested two brothers in northern France.

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