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On 16th July, CCN published a development on what happened to the darknet marketplace, AlphaBay. After it was down for over ten days. Reports suggested that authorities managed to raid its servers in United States and Canada, and arrest its alleged admin Alexander Cazes, a Canadian national, who was then found dead in his cell.

Users were advised to head over to Russian market Ramp, Hansa Market and Dream Market. Now, in an unexpected turn of events, it is been revealed that Hansa had been under law enforcement control since 20th June, and has now been taken down.

Europol press release, months of preparation and two major law enforcement operations led by the FBI, the United States Drug Enforcement Agency, and the Dutch National Police, in coordination with Europol, took down these websites that traded “over three lac fifty thousands illicit commodities”, including weapons, malware and drugs. The press release states that “millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrencies were seized and frozen”.