[ConcernedCitizen]

Like I mentioned in @"hacxx"'s post, the power trip you get by administrating a forum like this, is not worth all the trouble you'll get into.

Well said. The reason he drew so much attention was because the admin was cocky and he had a side hustle that involved being the middleman that approved the leaks and data sales and shell access that passed through his forum. The entire process involved putting his name on every transaction that contained illegal devices and breaches of personal data, copyright, remote access devices/trojans, etc. He basically left his signature - as the deal was finalized for EVERY transaction - on what other criminals were doing. In doing that he was making money from fraud at a high level just by viewing the data users were buying. He was involving himself in criminal activity. He looked at samples of the leaks, he verified remote access to government devices and personal computers for botnets, among a lot of things.