Law enforcement

FBI Shuts Down Largest Marketplace on the Darknet – AlphaBay

The Darknet is where hundreds of thousands of criminals could go to anonymously purchase and sell drugs, weapons, hacking tools, stolen identities, and other illegal goods and services. AlphaBay, which was in use for more than two years and had transactions exceeding $1 billion in Bitcoin and other digital currencies, was shut down on July 20, 2017 by a team of FBI agents, intelligence analysts, and support personnel. “This was a landmark operation,” said FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe during a press conference at the Department of Justice to announce the results of the case. “We’re talking about multiple servers in different countries, hundreds of millions in cryptocurrency…”