I haven't seen any offer you are describing here on bitcointalk. Can you post link to some examples?
There are good reasons to think that torac is selling hacked accounts.
Selling hacked accounts is not banned by any current forum policy.
Selling the accounts is not illegal as far as I know (maybe the act of hacking the accounts is illegal). I'm always reluctant to go against the forum's policy of free speech, and in this case I'm not even sure that the trades are immoral.
Theymos, I understand you're for free speech. But in this matter, you're stretching it..
If anyone gets access to an account they don't own, that's something that they should not do, and then selling this information to others, that is something that everybody should clearly see is unethical and wrong.
If you had a cabin in the woods that you hadn't used for a long time, and then somebody found the key to it and sold it to anyone, I don't think you'd be thrilled about it.
Free speech is good and all, but this is not about free speech, it is more about theft.