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Police from around the world shut down the biggest active black market on the dark web this month, according to announcements from law enforcement agencies in the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands released on Friday.
Wall Street Market, as the black market site was known, was the target of a 1.5-year-long multinational investigation. Three Germans were arrested on April 23 and 24 inside Germany for their alleged role in creating and administering the site that sold illegal drugs, documents, weapons, and data.
"WSM was one of the largest and most voluminous darknet marketplaces of all time," FBI Special Agent Leroy Shelton wrote in the criminal complaint released on Friday.
Source: https://gizmodo.com/one-of-the-largest-dark-net-markets-of-all-time-falls-1834511568
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Shire on Tuesday May 07 2019, @04:53PM
They don't have access to any other darknet market is my point, so any comparison is pointless. The whole idea behind a darknet is that its not something the authorities have a good handle on. And as was pointed out, this particular market was already shutdown long before the cops arrived. It was basically the carcass of an abandonded market.
I stand by my claim that this is just hyperbole - it's a bunch of cops patting themselves on the back for "uncovering" something that was given to them by an insider and shutting down something that wasn't even running anymore.