PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Four Russian website domains have been seized by the United States Department of Justice after finding them to be disguised as real business sites, luring people into giving out their personal information to make unauthorized financial transactions, the United States Attorney’s Office in Pittsburgh announced on Thursday.

LabHost — giving individuals the tools to create and manage spoofed websites designed to look like the legitimate websites of businesses such as Amazon, Netflix and Wells Fargo — was seized through warrants issued in the Western District of Pennsylvania in coordination with the arrest of dozens of administrators and customers of the illicit service by foreign law enforcement agencies, according to a news release.

The effect of the domain seizures was to shut down the LabHost platform, according to the release.

The theft of personal information — and the financial ruin that often follows — should never be just another cost of using the internet for ordinary citizens,” U.S. Attorney Eric G. Olshan in Pittsburgh said in the statement. “Today’s domain seizures show that cybercriminals’ greed will not go unchecked — no matter their sophistication and geographic reach. We will continue to work with our domestic and foreign law enforcement partners, using all available tools, to protect the global public.”

The domains were found to be leading customers to a Russian internet infrastructure company. LabHost has been used to create over 40,000 spoofed websites, storing over 1 million users’ personal identifiable information. This led to nearly 500,000 compromised credit cards, according to the release.

Authorities from the following countries participated in the investigation: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Malta, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.