Teens Jailed For Running "Criminal Equivalent of Facebook"

"Dude, what are you in for? Murder? Cool. Me and my friends ran the "criminal equivalent of Facebook from math class....I call top bunk!"

In court, Tyrone Smith, defending, said the site was a "Crimebook" where people could learn and socialize. To users, Gh0stMarket appeared as lines of computer code and broken English. On the site hackers and fraudsters traded anonymously in compromised databases containing thousands of personal details including account numbers, pins and passwords. The site contained manuals such as "14 ways of hacking credit cards" and "running cards on eBay" and information on staying anonymous. It sold hacking software and instructions on how to manufacture crystal meth and explosives.

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