What happened to Sellix? The Operation Talent seizure, explained

January 28-30, 2025. Police forces in several countries take down Cracked and Nulled, two of the largest cybercrime forums. Europol’s announcement puts their combined size at "over 10 million users worldwide", and the US Department of Justice, quoted in press coverage, says Cracked alone "had over four million users, listed over 28 million posts advertising cybercrime tools". The domains taken that week include cracked.io, cracked.to, nulled.to, starkrdp.io, sellix.io and mysellix.io.

So why was a shop platform on that list? The reporting answers it: Cracked used Sellix to take payments. The Hacker News called it "a financial processor named Sellix which was used by Cracked", and BleepingComputer described Sellix as a platform "that allowed users to create their own online stores, which threat actors also used to sell stolen data, software keys, and compromised accounts". The official Justice Department and Europol releases name Cracked and Nulled as the targets. Sellix appears in the seized-domain lists and in the coverage, and not in the text of either release.

Sellix published a statement at sellix.com, last updated on August 17, 2025. It is short, and it is worth reading in the company’s own words.

On the point sellers care about most, the statement is direct: "no funds have been lost". It also says Sellix "has always operated in compliance with applicable regulations", that it ran systems "both automated and manual to detect and block the sale of illegal products and services", and it tells merchants to "consider exploring other solutions until we are back online". No charges against Sellix have been made public, and the company has published nothing since.

Nothing published since suggests it is. sellix.io no longer resolves at all. mysellix.io still serves a page headed "This Website Has Been Seized". sellix.com carries the statement above and has not changed in roughly a year. There is no relaunch, no product and no further word from the company. Whatever a court eventually decides about any of it, the platform is gone in the only sense that matters to somebody who was selling on it.

Thousands of shops lost their storefront, their customer records and their checkout in one night because of an enforcement action aimed at somebody else. A great many of them were selling ordinary things, ebooks and software keys and game assets, and had nothing to do with the forums that were the target.

Notice what those sellers did not lose. Sellix was non-custodial, so buyers paid into the seller’s own Stripe and PayPal accounts, and the company’s statement says no money went missing. What vanished was the shop itself, which lived entirely on a domain somebody else owned. That is the part worth designing around, and it turns into one question you can ask any platform before you list a single product: if this company stopped answering tomorrow, what would still be mine?

Where you go next depends on why you were on Sellix in the first place. If your buyers found you through a Discord, a forum thread or your own following, then what you were paying for was a checkout and an address, and both of those are replaceable in an afternoon: a flat monthly store on a name you control, with money landing in accounts you already have. If your sales came from being listed somewhere people browse, discovery is the harder half to rebuild, and a marketplace cut is what that costs. Most people who moved after January 2025 ended up doing both, keeping a listing for strangers and their own shop for everyone who already knows them. ByteSell is built for the second half of that, at 0% on every plan with a custom domain on Pro, and the platforms sellers actually moved to are ranked in Sellix alternatives.