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Shpend Sokoli

Person arrested in Albania in December 2024 as an alleged administrator of the Rydox marketplace.

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Rydox founder Ardit Kutleshi pleads guilty over a stolen-data market that took in $232,000

Ardit Kutleshi, 28, pleaded guilty to running Rydox, which sold U.S. victims' data and fraud tools from 2016 to 2024 for at least $232,000 in revenue. Spread across 7,600-plus sales, the operators averaged about $30 each for data that buyers keep after the site is seized.

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