{"id":407694,"date":"2017-08-01T09:07:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T09:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/08\/01\/huge-dark-web-drug-sites-shut-down\/"},"modified":"2017-08-01T09:07:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T09:07:50","slug":"huge-dark-web-drug-sites-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/01\/huge-dark-web-drug-sites-shut-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge dark web drug sites shut down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">&#13;<br \/>\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.4.4--><\/p>\n<p>Two of the largest dark web marketplaces have been shut down following a \u201clandmark\u201d international law enforcement investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The AlphaBay and Hansa sites had been associated with the trade in illicit items such as drugs, weapons, malware and stolen data.<\/p>\n<p>According to Europol, there were more than 250,000 listings for illegal drugs and toxic chemicals on AlphaBay.<\/p>\n<p>Hansa was seized and covertly monitored for a month before being deactivated.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said it believed the bust would lead to hundreds of new investigations in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe capability of drug traffickers and other serious criminals around the world has taken a serious hit today,\u201d said Europol\u2019s executive director Rob Wainwright.<\/p>\n<p>It was a \u201clandmark\u201d operation, according to US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director Andrew McCabe.<\/p>\n<p>AlphaBay has been offline since early July, fuelling suspicions among users that a law enforcement crackdown had taken place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018You cannot hide\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know of several Americans who were killed by drugs on AlphaBay,\u201d said US Attorney General Jeff Sessions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne victim was just 18 years old when in February she overdosed on a powerful synthetic opioid which she had bought on AlphaBay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also said a 13-year-old boy died after overdosing on a synthetic opioid bought by a high school classmate via the site.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sessions cautioned criminals from thinking that they could evade prosecution by using the dark web: \u201cYou cannot hide,\u201d he said, \u201cWe will find you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The US Department of Justice (DoJ) said that illegal drugs listed for sale on AlphaBay included heroin and fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations were led by the FBI, the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the Dutch National Police.<\/p>\n<p>Police in other countries, including the UK, France and Lithuania, also contributed.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch National Police took over the Hansa marketplace on 20 June after two men in Germany were arrested and servers in Germany, The Netherlands and Lithuania were seized.<\/p>\n<p>This allowed for \u201cthe covert monitoring of criminal activities on the platform\u201d until it was eventually shut down a month later.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since AlphaBay went offline earlier in July, users of the site had discussed potential alternative dark web marketplaces on online forums.<\/p>\n<p>Hansa was frequently mentioned, meaning that the authorities were likely able to uncover new criminal activity on Hansa as users migrated to it from AlphaBay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recorded an eight times increase in the number of human users on Hansa immediately following the takedown of AlphaBay,\u201d said Mr Wainwright.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; Two of the largest dark web marketplaces have been shut down following a \u201clandmark\u201d international law enforcement investigation. The AlphaBay and Hansa sites had been associated with the trade in illicit items such as drugs, weapons, malware and stolen data. According to Europol, there were more than 250,000 listings for illegal drugs and toxic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":407695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Huge dark web drug sites shut down - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/01\/huge-dark-web-drug-sites-shut-down\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Huge dark web drug sites shut down - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"&#013; Two of the largest dark web marketplaces have been shut down following a \u201clandmark\u201d international law enforcement investigation. 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