"Alphabay" and "Hansa Market": Big name of DarkWeb seized


The AlphaBay and Hansa Market -DarkWeb sites had been associated with the trade in items such as drugs, weapons, malware and stolen data online as well as offline. Hansa Market was monitored for a month before being deactivated.

AlphaBay and Hansa were accessible only through the Tor network, which presence a significant challenge to law enforcement agents hoping to seize the host servers. It’s still unclear how authorities were able to locate the servers or site admin, but it appears to have been done without compromising the underlying protections of Tor.

The agency said it believed the bust would lead to hundreds of new investigations in Europe. "The capability of drug traffickers and other serious criminals around the world has taken a serious hit today," said Europol's executive director Rob Wainwright.

Marketplace URL: http://pwoah7foa6au2pul.onion/register.php?aff=41211 (Seized)
Forum Registty: http://pwoah7foa6au2pul.onion/forum/
Sub Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/AlphaBay/

After nonavailability of Silk Road, AlphaBay became popular in 2014 and became a leader among dark web marketplaces for selling drugs, carding material, exploits, and malware.

 On 4th July, AlphaBay suddenly went down from its administrators, which left its customers in panic. Some of customers even suspected that the website's admins had went down and stole user funds.

However, last week it was reported that the mysterious shut down of the darkweb site Alphabay was due to a series of raids conducted by the international authorities.

The raid also resulted in the arrest of Alexandre Cazes, a 26-year-old Canadian citizen who was one of the alleged AlphaBay's operators and was awaiting extradition to the US when a guard found him hanged in his jail cell the next day.

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