Author: Adi Robertson
A Europol-led police operation has arrested three people who allegedly ran the Wall Street Market, supposedly the world’s second-largest “dark web” marketplace. Authorities also seized the site’s servers and more than €550,000 (around $615,000) in cash, plus Bitcoin and Monero “in six-digit amounts,” which could add up to a huge sum. (A single bitcoin currently trades for $5,700 and Monero trade for around $65.)
The arrests were part of Europol’s “Dark Web Team” operations, and they only the latest in a string of dark web market crackdowns. As German police arrested the Wall Street Market suspects, Finnish law enforcement seized another marketplace known as Silkkitie or Valhalla, and American police arrested two alleged high-volume drug...
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A Europol-led police operation has arrested three people who allegedly ran the Wall Street Market, supposedly the world’s second-largest “dark web” marketplace. Authorities also seized the site’s servers and more than €550,000 (around $615,000) in cash, plus Bitcoin and Monero “in six-digit amounts,” which could add up to a huge sum. (A single bitcoin currently trades for $5,700 and Monero trade for around $65.)
The arrests were part of Europol’s “Dark Web Team” operations, and they only the latest in a string of dark web market crackdowns. As German police arrested the Wall Street Market suspects, Finnish law enforcement seized another marketplace known as Silkkitie or Valhalla, and American police arrested two alleged high-volume drug...
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