On November 22, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had seized the cybercrime platform Popeyetools and indicted its administrators Abdul Ghaffar, Abdul Sami, and Javed Mirza, accusing them of selling stolen financial data and assisting in the commission of ransomware and fraud crimes. Since 2016, the platform has made $1.7 million in profits from cryptocurrency payments, involving the sale of stolen credit card data and personally identifiable information. Law enforcement also seized $283,000 worth of cryptocurrency from wallets controlled by Sami. U.S. prosecutors said the operation was a result of international law enforcement cooperation and successfully dismantled the platform that provided services such as "Live Fullz" and financial data verification tools. If convicted, the defendants could face up to 10 years in prison on each charge.