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Authorities from the U.S. and Europe announced Thursday that they had taken down illegal dark web marketplaces AlphaBay and Hansa, but not before using the latter site as bait to collect information on users attempting to buy and sell drugs, fake IDs, stolen credit cards, weapons, toxic chemicals and more. Authorities say they collected addresses of 10,000 Hansa users during the operation, which will aid in the ongoing international investigation into the e-commerce underground.
AlphaBay was the largest “dark market” operated on the highly anonymous dark web, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, serving over 200,000 users, hosting over 40,000 vendors and listing over 250,000 items—ranging from illegal drugs, to stolen information, to hacking tools—at the time it was taken down by authorities on July 4.
The dark web is an unseen part of the internet that is not indexed by search engines such as Google, and can only be accessed using special browsers such as Tor, which redirects users’ communications through several routers, masking their IP address and therefore keeping them largely anonymous and untraceable. For additional anonymity, users of the AlphaBay shopping site used digital cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin to place their purchases.
Although authorities have not released exactly how the AlphaBay and Hansa dark web sites were infiltrated, an indictment and complaint for forfeiture filed against AlphaBay’s creator, 24-year-old Alexandre Cazes, sheds some light on the investigation and on Cazes’ alleged role in the multi-million-dollar underground operation. (Cazes was arrested on July 5 while living in Thailand and died in Thai custody on July 12 in an apparent suicide, according to the DOJ.)
Cazes had amassed a net worth of approximately $23
