PC Magazine - USA (2021-02)

T

he most notorious dark-web marketplace, Silk Road, was forcibly shut

down in 2013. Now, an international operation has managed to take

down what was the world’s largest active dark-web marketplace and

arrested the individual who ran it.

As Europol reports, the marketplace in question, called DarkMarket, consisted

of almost 500,000 users and over 2,400 sellers, and it handled over 320,

transactions. In total, it’s thought DarkMarket saw over $170 million change

hands in the form of Bitcoin and Monero cryptocurrencies (over 4,650 bitcoin

and 12,800 monero).

World’s Largest Dark Web

Marketplace Taken Offline,

Operator Arrested BY MATTHEW HUMPHRIES

DARK WEB

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