ALPHABAY and Hansa respectively numbers 1 and 3 markets online drugs, just closed following a police major operation.
The news comes to end rumors that surrounded the end of the first.!
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Hansa et AlphaBay
It is a major blow net in the history of the web. Now the darknet is no longer a safe haven for criminals worldwide.
Two sites among the largest illegal markets have just fallen through international coordinated operation.
To achieve this, they are the FBI, the DEA and the Dutch National Police supported by Europol which collaborated.
New large taken 4 years after Silk Road
After Silk Road in 2013 , the ALPHABAY site which fell on July 4 followed by Hansa.
On both platforms the black market there was such drugs, but also chemicals, false identity papers or credit card data.
In releases of Europol and the US Department of Justice , we learn that at the time of closing ALPHABAY, it is not less than 200 000 users and 40,000 merchants who had transited via the platform.
The authorities also believe that since the creation of the site in 2014, illegal transactions would amount to nearly one billion. They were financed in Bitcoins and other cybermonnaies.