Notorious UK Hacker Arraigned in the U.S. for Connections to Dark Web Market The Real Deal

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The U.S. Justice Department arraigned notorious hacker and UK citizen Daniel Kaye for alleged connections to The Real Deal, a dark web market that sold hacking tools and stolen login credentials for U.S. government computers.

Prosecutors accuse Kaye of operating the platform and facilitating the sale of stolen information, including bank account and credit card details, other personal information, illegal drugs, weapons, botnets, computer hacking tools, and credentials for social media accounts. He previously served over two-and-a-half years in a British prison for perpetrating a devastating distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Liberia, among other crimes.

Kaye allegedly ran the site while living overseas and organized it under categories like “Exploit Code,” “Counterfeits,” “Drugs,” “Fraud & More, “Government Data,” and “Weapons.”  According to the indictment, the site featured computer login credentials at the U.S. Navy, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Posta…