巴黎：两国执法部门周三（10月7日）表示，法国和美国联合开展的一次行动查封了多个与某在线平台相关的网站，该平台曾售卖从全球17,000多名女性那里盗取的私密性爱内容。
PARIS: A joint French-US operation has shut down several websites associated with an online platform that sold private sexual content stolen from over 17,000 women worldwide, law enforcement authorities in both countries said Wednesday (Oct 7).
巴黎检察官办公室发表声明称，周二在法国北部逮捕了两名年龄分别为21岁和25岁的兄弟，他们涉嫌是 NudeLeaksTeens 平台的“主要管理员”。
Two brothers, aged 21 and 25, were arrested in northern France on Tuesday on suspicion of having been the "main administrators" of the NudeLeaksTeens platform, a statement from the Paris prosecutor's office said.
该平台售卖从Facebook、Instagram、TikTok和Snapchat等渠道的被黑客攻击账号中盗取的、涉及数千名女性和女孩的图片和视频“打包文件”。
The platform sold "packs" of images and videos of thousands of women and girls stolen from sources including hacked accounts on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.
检察官办公室表示，受影响的有各种国籍的17,000多名女性，其中一些是儿童。
More than 17,000 women of all nationalities were affected, the prosecutor's office said, some of whom were children.
美国弗吉尼亚州东区检察官办公室在另一份声明中表示，该网站“公开出售儿童的色情图片和视频”。
The US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia said in a separate statement that the site "offered for sale sexually explicit images and videos of children".
声明称，该平台以特定专辑的形式出售其内容，其中包括一个被宣传为包含“6,200份私密裸照文件”的专辑，这些文件主要来自被黑客攻击的美国青少年或成年人账号，其中包括儿童性虐待材料。法国调查人员还查封了价值超过70万欧元的比特币等数字资产。
It said the platform sold its content in specific albums, including one advertised as containing "6,200 private nude files" of mostly American teenagers or adults from hacked accounts, including child sexual abuse material. French investigators also seized digital assets including bitcoin worth more than 700,000 euros.
平台鼓励用户以虚拟货币为交换，提供每位受害者的身份信息。受害者按真实姓名单独列出，并按年龄、地点和职业进行分类。
Users on the platform were encouraged - in exchange for virtual currency - to provide identifying information about each victim, who were listed individually by their real names and categorised by age, location and occupation.
法国检察官表示，此次行动是与美国执法部门联合开展的一部分，旨在“打击儿童色情制品，以及传播和出售涉及女性的被盗私密性爱内容”。
French prosecutors said the operation was part of a joint effort with US law enforcement to "combat child pornography, as well as the distribution and sale of stolen private sexual content involving women".