The defendants advertised SecondEye’s services on at least one well-known cyber hacker forum. SecondEye’s advertisements claimed that SecondEye documents could be used by customers who were “banned” or “suspended” to restore access to their online accounts. The defendants accepted more than $1.5 million in Bitcoin transfers alone from SecondEye customers related to more than 20,000 separate transactions.
Meh..this job involves some smartness. When you have this kind of skills, it's not that hard to change your identity, I mean.. you got paid $1.5 millions for this specific job, you have to know how to do it for yourself.
And about bitcoins, I guess a part is spent already and whatever is left, surely is not sitting in Bitcoins. I suppose it went out, through Monero or other privacy coin, and it's by now transformed in cash. If it's enough for them to get by or not, who knows, but I assume they will manage to not get caught, because of those particular skills.
Probably they won't be able to reopen their services again, here or elsewhere, because FBI will monitor everything, but they'll find something, I guess..
As for the illegality, probably BHW lawyers will have some work to do. It's bad if it starts a hunt for those who used their services, BHW may survive, being in a greyish area, but users are straight in the black hole.
I don't think deleting the thread helps anyone, it's been around for a long time, it's a known thing they sold here.
My 2c