Department of Justice and Europol announce takedown of dark web marketplaces AlphaBay and Hansa Market, both focused on drugs and fraudulent IDs
Two Dark Web Markets — Have Been Shut Down Kim Crawley / Naked Security : Global police swoop shutters Hansa and AlphaBay dark web markets Carly Page / Inquirer : Dark web crackdown sees AlphaBay and Hansa raided and closed Joseph Cox / Motherboard : US, Europol, and Netherlands Announce Shutdowns of Two Massive Dark Web Markets C. Aliens / Deep Dot Web : A Globally Coordinated Operation Just Took Down Alphabay and Hansa Rob Quinn / Newser : Cops Secretly Seized Darknet Drug Market, Then Ran It Paul Hill / Neowin : Hansa dark web market pulled offline, authorities confirm AlphaBay closure too Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security : Exclusive: Dutch Cops on AlphaBay ‘Refugees’ Colin Dwyer / NPR : Justice Department Announces ‘Largest Darknet Takedown In History’ Mike Riggs / Hit & Run : DOJ Claims Responsibility for Shutting Down Cryptomarkets AlphaBay and Hansa Pieter Arntz / Malwarebytes Labs : Hansa Market on Dark Web was controlled by Dutch police Mary Beth Quirk / Consumerist : DOJ Shuts Down Online ‘Dark Market’ Peddling Opioids, Guns, & Hacking Tools Benjamin Vitaris / Bitcoin Magazine : Hansa Market Taken Down in Global Law Enforcement Operation AJ Dellinger / International Business Times : AlphaBay Shut Down: Feds Announce AlphaBay, Hansa Market Taken Offline By Law Enforcement John Leyden / The Register : Cops harpoon two dark net whales in megabust: AlphaBay and Hansa Jeff John Roberts / Fortune : Gotcha: U.S. and Europe Take Out Dark Web Sites Tu Thanh Ha / Globe and Mail : Canadian was alleged mastermind of shuttered Dark Web market AlphaBay Marcus Gilmer / Mashable : 2 giant dark web marketplaces that sold drugs, guns, and data shut down in global operation Kate Conger / Gizmodo : Authorities Shut Down Two Major Dark Web Markets Joseph Marks / Nextgov : Justice Department Takes Drug War to Dark Web Markets Swati Khandelwal / The Hacker News : Feds Seize AlphaBay and Hansa Markets in Major Dark-Web Bust Kif Leswing / Business Insider : The FBI just took down AlphaBay, an online black market for drugs that was 10 times bigger than Silk Road Swapna Krishna / Engadget : US authorities have seized the dark web marketplace AlphaBay DataBreaches.net : AlphaBay and Hansa taken down in coordinated operations by FBI and Dutch National Police Tweets: Kyle Torpey / @kyletorpey : So Hansa Market has already been taken down too. Roughly $2 million euros worth of #bitcoin seized. http://www.politie.nl/... Jamie Bartlett / @jamiejbartlett : Far more interesting than the shut down of Alpha Bay is that the Dutch police seized & ran Hansa market for a month. http://www.politie.nl/... http://twitter.com/... See also Mediagazer