The Justice Department just recently announced its takeover of AlphaBay, an online marketplace used to buy and sell drugs and other illicit goods. Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, referred to it as the “largest dark Web takedown in world history.”
“The Justice Department said that one AlphaBay staff member claimed that it served more than 200,000 users and 40,000 vendors. About the time of the takedown, there were more than 250,000 listings for illegal drugs and toxic chemicals, and more than 100,000 listings for stolen and fraudulent identification documents and access devices, counterfeit goods, malware and other computer hacking tools, firearms and fraudulent services” (Zapotosky, 2017,...
