US Authorities Shut Down AlphaBay Dark Web Market
NEWS 2017 JULY 26---The US Department of Justice on Thursday confirmed that they have shut down the black market and captured AlphaBay’s operator
EARLIER The founder and operator of AlphaBay, Alexandre Cazes, was arrested causing AlphaBay to shut down.
The 25-year old Canadian Alexandre Cazes known as the founder of the dark website AlphaBay was arrested in Bangkok Thailand. However, shortly after he was arrested, Cazes committed suicide inside his jail cell. He was found dead hanging in a towel on the ceiling of his cell.
USE OF ALPHABAY
It hosted more than 40,000 vendors of drugs which transacted to some 200,000 clients.
AlphaBay was also used to trade in weapons and malware according to the law enforcers along with a series of Bitcoin-related heists.
Rob Wainwright, the Executive Director of Europol said:
"This is an outstanding success by authorities in Europe and the US. The capability of drug traffickers and other serious criminals around the world has taken a serious hit today after a highly sophisticated joint action in multiple countries.”
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Its crazy how sites like this can still exist. Its such a complicated game of cat and mouse now with level upon level of tools that only hackers used to use in the past.