AlphaBay, was an online market that illegally sold Dark Web products. The page appears to be offline after arrests took place in three countries.
The attacks took place in the US, Canada and Thailand on July 5, and on the same day AlphaBay's website on Dark Web was mysterious.
The authorities refused to comment on the matter, but the Wall Street Journal claims that an internal source has confirmed that AlphaBay was closed after law enforcement intervened.
Two police raids seem to have taken place in residences in Trois-Rivières, Canada, and another raid on a business address in Montreal. No arrests were made, but equipment was seized.
The latest police raid took place in Thailand, where a Canadian national named Alexander Cazes was reportedly arrested. The 26-year-old was arrested at their private residences in Bangkok. Police seized three homea and four Lamborghini cars, worth about 400 million baht, which is 11,8 million dollars.
Local authorities detained Cazes after an international arrest warrant in the US was issued for drug trafficking.
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On July 12, Cazes was hanging with a towel in his cell, according to him Press of Thailand.
It is still unclear whether Cazes was an AlphaBay staff member or a seller on the site. The unconfirmed rumors that started sapo the Reddit and smaller blogs claim that Cazes was the administrator of AlphaBay aka DeSnake.
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The AlphaBay Drug Market was launched in December of 2014 and began to grow when another major drug market of the Dark Web market was closed Evolution.
Μέχρι τον Οκτώβριο του 2015, το AlphaBay είχε πάνω από 200.000 χρήστες και η αγορά του συνέχισε να αυξάνεται με σταθερό ρυθμό, καθώς η αγορά του TheRealDeal εξαφανίστηκε μυστηριωδώς το καλοκαίρι του 2016. Τη στιγμή της εξαφάνισης της ναρκοαγοράς, το AlphaBay είχε over 400.000 users.
Meanwhile, former AlphaBay vendors and users started to flush to other Dark Web markets. According to DeepDotWeb, a Dark Web site, the three most popular Dark Web markets after the closing of AlphaBay are: RAMP (Russian), Dream Market and Hansa Market.
