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"This was a landmark operation," said FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe throughout a press convention on the Department of Justice to announce the results of the case. "We’re speaking about a number of servers in several international locations, tons of of tens of millions in cryptocurrency, and a Darknet drug trade that spanned the globe."
A dedicated crew of FBI brokers, intelligence analysts, mega darknet and support personnel labored alongside domestic and international law enforcement companions to shut down the location and cease the move of illegal items. "AlphaBay was really a world site," mentioned Special Agent Nicholas Phirippidis, one of the FBI investigators who labored on the case from the FBI’s Sacramento Division. "Vendors have been delivery illegal gadgets from locations all around the world to locations all over the world."
The web site, an outgrowth of earlier dark market websites like Silk Road-but much larger-went online in December 2014. It took about six months for the underground marketplace to pick up momentum, Phirippidis mentioned, "but after that it grew exponentially."
AlphaBay reported that it serviced more than 200,000 customers and 40,000 vendors. Around the time of the takedown, the positioning had greater than 250,000 listings for illegal medication and toxic chemicals, and greater than 100,000 listings for stolen and fraudulent identification documents, counterfeit items, malware and other laptop hacking tools, firearms, and fraudulent services. By comparability, the Silk Road dark market-the most important such enterprise of its type before it was shut down in 2013-had approximately 14,000 listings.
