Silk Road 2.0 Shut Down by the FBI, Operator Arrested
Exactly one year after it went live on November 6 2013, Silk Road 2.0 has been taken offline in a joint operation between the FBI and Europol. Visitors to the deep web drug marketplace have been met with an official police notice informing them of the site's seizure. The New York FBI announced on Twitter that the site's operator Blake Benthall, was arrested in San Francisco. "Operator of Silk Road 2.0, Blake Benthall, arrested yesterday by FBI agents in San Francisco, CA. Business Insider reports the arrest of a major online drug dealer in Ireland, as part of Operation Onymous. European....
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) together with the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York have announced that they have arrested 'Defcon', the operator of illicit black market website Silk Road 2.0. At press time, the Silk Road 2.0 marketplace was no longer operational, with the website displaying a disclaimer that it had been taken down by Europol, Eurojust, the FBI, US Department of Justice and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Authorities arrested 26-year-old San Francisco native Blake Benthall yesterday in his home city. He will appear in federal court today....
Welcome back to another Bitcoin News in Review, where we feature some of the top stories of the week here on CryptoCoins News. This week (2 November - 9 November), Silk Road 2.0 and various other similar services were taken down by the FBI, bitcoin tipping app ChangeTip went viral, the bitcoin price has been on the rise, and more. Keep scrolling for this week's top stories. Also read: Bitcoin News in Review: SEC, Bitcoin Price, Hacks, and More. Silk Road 2.0 Shut Down. Exactly one year after it went live, Silk Road 2.0 was shut down by the FBI and Europol this week on November 6th. The....
Silk Road 2.0 has reimbursed over half its users since the February heist and has no plans to stop. It seems like Silk Road is far more resilient than most people thought. Back in May 2013, Silk Road went down due to a sustained DDoS attack, but site admins were soon able to restore the service. Then in October 2013, the United States FBI shut down the illegal online drug marketplace and arrested the site's owner - Ross Ulbricht, formerly only known as “Dread Pirate Roberts”. Many Silk Road users feared that the site was gone for good, but on 6 November 2013, site admins launched “Silk....
Silk Road's alleged owner Ross William Ulbricht, aka 'Dread Pirate Roberts', has been arrested with reports also claiming the online black market has been shut down by the FBI. Currently, the site, which is operated as a Tor hidden service and is famously used by some bitcoin users to buy drugs, displays a notice stating that the site has been seized. The notice currently displayed on the Silk Road site. According to court documents published on journalist Brian Krebs' website Krebs on Security, Ulbricht was arrested as he "intentionally and knowingly did combine, conspire, confederate and....
The coordinated international action, dubbed Operation Onymous, against the Deep Net marketplaces infamous for being run on the rails of Bitcoin and other digital currencies is still being unveiled. So far, three men have been arrested in the last few days in conjunction with the cases. Currently, Cloud 9, Hydra, and Silk Road 2.0 display the increasingly-visible "This Hidden Site Has Been Seized" notice that online law enforcement has become famous for making. Beyond the three confirmed downed sites, several other Deep Net marketplaces are offline at the moment. Dark net marketplace....