The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrested five people in connection with several hacking-for-hire websites.
Two men have been charged with running and three others with being customers of websites that allegedly offered to obtain access to email accounts.
According to the BBC, the men were arrested after a swoop against the sites was co-ordinated with police forces in Romania , India and China.
According to the FBI, Mark Anthony Townsend and Joshua Alan Tabor have been charged with operating the needapassword.com website that charged people to find passwords for about 6,000 email accounts.
If the two are found guilty they face up to five years in jail for computer fraud offences.(ANI)