German police shut down major 'darknet' illegal trading site

BERLIN: German police have shut down one of the world’s largest illegal online markets in the so-called darkweb and arrested the three men allegedly running it, prosecutors said Friday.

The illicit “Wall Street Market” site enabled trade in cocaine, heroin, cannabis and amphetamines as well as stolen data, fake documents and malicious software. The site was accessed through the encrypted Tor network to shield customers from detection and transactions were made with crypto currencies Bitcoin and Monero.German police had on April 23 and 24 arrested the three German suspects aged 22 to 31 in the states of Hesse, Baden-Wuerttemberg and North Rhine-Westphalia.

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