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After AlphaBay’s Demise, Customers Flocked to Dark Market Run by Dutch Police

  • 20 July 2017
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Jasper_The_Rasper
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20th July 2017
 
Earlier this month, news broke that authorities had seized the Dark Web marketplace AlphaBay, an online black market that peddled everything from heroin to stolen identity and credit card data. But it wasn’t until today, when the U.S. Justice Department held a press conference to detail the AlphaBay takedown that the other shoe dropped: Police in The Netherlands for the past month have been operating Hansa Market, a competing Dark Web bazaar that enjoyed a massive influx of new customers immediately after the AlphaBay takedown.
 

The normal home page for the dark Web market Hansa has been replaced by this message from U.S. law enforcement authorities.
 
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Jasper_The_Rasper
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July 20, 2017
 
Following today’s breaking news about U.S. and international authorities taking down the competing Dark Web drug bazaars AlphaBay and Hansa Market, KrebsOnSecurity caught up with the Dutch investigators who took over Hansa on June 20, 2017. When U.S. authorities shuttered AlphaBay on July 5, police in The Netherlands saw a massive influx of AlphaBay refugees who were unwittingly fleeing directly into the arms of investigators. What follows are snippets from an exclusive interview with Petra Haandrikman, team leader of the Dutch police unit that infiltrated Hansa.
 
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Now, this is the sort of news that it is good to get...the mmiscreants caught in a super sting...delicious & exquisite. :D
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