KUALA LUMPUR, March 6 -- The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has joined a global law enforcement sweep that dismantled the LeakBase cybercrime forum, a marketplace for stolen data with more than 142,000 members.

The coordinated operation on March 3 involved agencies from 14 countries and was facilitated by Europol at its headquarters in The Hague. Arrests, house searches and "knock and talk" interventions were carried out across multiple jurisdictions.

"The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), along with the law enforcement authorities from 14 countries, successfully carried out coordinated enforcement actions targeting individuals linked to the cybercrime data-leak forum known as LeakBase," MACC said in a statement ...