Juvenile Ran Online Drug Empire From Bedroom, Got Paid In Bitcoin
A German court has sentenced a young man to seven years' juvenile detention for running a multi-million-euro online drug business from his bedroom in his mother's apartment, according to The Guardian, the London, U. K. -based newspaper. The man sold nearly one ton of drugs on the Darknet and the open Internet, taking payment in bitcoin and delivering drugs by registered mail. Police described the operation as highly sophisticated. The man, referred to as Maximilian S, rented computer servers in the Netherlands and used IP addresses throughout Germany. He also encrypted his email, took....
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