After Alpha Bay’s Demise, Customers Flocked to Dark Market Run by Dutch Police
Summary: Dutch police had quietly taken over the Hansa Market dark web bazaar on June 20, and after AlphaBay was seized in early July, they recorded an eight-fold increase in human users as displaced buyers and sellers flocked to Hansa. The AlphaBay takedown targeted some 40,000 vendors and a quarter-million listings for more than 200,000 customers, and authorities used thousands of usernames and passwords harvested from both markets to pursue accounts elsewhere.
What you should know: Europol said credentials for thousands of Hansa buyers and sellers were identified for follow-up investigations, and Flashpoint's Ronnie Tokazowski noted that vendors who reused usernames and passwords across dark markets face a bad day - the same credential-reuse habit that turns one breach into many inside any organization.
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