AlphaBay
Former AlphaBay Moderator Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison
A Colorado man received a prison sentence of 11 years for having served as a moderator on the AlphaBay underground marketplace. U.S. District Court Judge Dale A. Drozd handed down the sentence ...
FEMA IT Specialist Charged in ID Theft, Tax Refund Fraud Conspiracy
An information technology specialist at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was arrested this week on suspicion of hacking into the human resource databases of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in ...
Bitcoin Tumbling Leads to Multicount Indictment
Is the practice of tumbling or mixing bitcoin actually illegal? That’s a tricky question Larry Dean Harmon of Akron, Ohio, operated a company called Helix which, together with the DDW marketplace AlphaBay, ...
AlphaBay Dark Web Market Moderator Faces up to 20 Years in Prison
Dark web marketplace moderator Bryan Connor Herrell pleaded guilty in the United States to conspiring to engage in a racketeer-influenced corrupt organization. While the infamous Silk Road made a lot more headlines, ...
