Authorities have arrested 14 men in connection with a child abuse images website that involved 251 children, mostly boys, in the US and other countries.
The victims ranged in age from three to 17, officials from the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.
The vast majority of the children came from across the US, while 23 were identified in Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Belgium.
The organisation is "one of the largest known online child exploitation operations in history", Department of Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson told reporters.
The suspects were charged with conspiracy to operate a child exploitation enterprise.
Some of the men assumed female online personas to connect with the children on popular social networks and lure them into providing sexually explicit material.
By the time it was dismantled, the illegal website contained more than 2,000 shared webcam-captured videos of mostly juvenile boys.
The website had more than 27,000 subscribers, according to officials.
Some of the subscribers have been arrested on lesser charges, though authorities did not give a figure.
But they said that at least 300 people in the US and abroad are under investigation.
The website shared videos of boys enticed into providing sexually explicit material through Tor, which allows online anonymity by routing internet traffic in a way that conceals a user's location, authorities said.
Among those arrested is the website's suspected main administrator, Jonathan Johnson, a 27-year-old from Louisiana.
If convicted, he faces 20 years to life in prison.
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