27 August 2020CopyrightSarah Morgan

Europol and 19 countries dismantle international piracy group

The ‘Sparks Group’, allegedly one of the biggest online piracy networks in the world, has been taken down in a coordinated action between US authorities and their counterparts in 18 countries around the world, with Europol and Eurojust support.

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