For almost three years,"Welcome To Video" was a covert den for people who traded in clips of children being sexually assaulted.
There, on the darknet's largest-known site of child exploitation videos, hundreds of users from around the world accessed material that showed the sexual abuse of children as young as six months old. Then it all began to unravel.On Wednesday, the United States' Department of Justice revealed how it had followed a trail of bitcoin transactions to find the suspected administrator of the site: A 23-year-old South Korean man named Jong Woo Son. But the case is much bigger than just one man.
Bitcoin: Digital gold or Ponzi scheme? 07:03At the time, bitcoin still wasn't a widely used payment method. The non-profit Internet Watch Foundation, which works to remove images and videos of child sexual abuse from the web, found that some of the most prolific commercial child sexual abuse sites first started accepting bitcoin as payment in 2014. According to the DOJ, Welcome To Video was"among the first of its kind to monetize child exploitation videos using bitcoin.
Bitcoin takes a hit after Silk Road bust 00:42In March 2018, authorities searched Son's house and found the server for Welcome To Video was hosted in Son's bedroom. Authorities also seized eight terabytes containing 250,000 sexual assault videos. In total, 45% of the videos analyzed by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children contained images not"previously known to exist." From there, authorities were able to track down other suspects.
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Kudos to the DOJ.
It doest take much effort to defeat the dark web and intercept dark traffic. They are doing it wrong . In this case, they just got lucky. Really lucky .
Wow CNN, it’s amazing how much of your reporters and commentators are ex Obama staff and Cabinet, when them indictments open your roster and payroll will take one hell of a big cut. How the hell can one employer have chose so wisely on staff, well plays CNN, copping out 👍👍
Children are indeed our most vulnerable population. The abusers, those taking the images/videos and the one watching those clips should all be held accountable for these horrible crime. savekid donoharm
Perverts!
More than a million were discovered. How many more got away with this. You realize any time you condone any violation of the laws of nature, YOU are abetting these folks who know no law?
CNN is that you? Peek a Boo. We can see you...
When will we find out all the names in the Epstein case? BillClinton realDonaldTrump dbongino charliekirk11 FoxNews seanhannity TuckerCarlson ABC CBSNews NBCNews
Cannibalism Common Core Math rounds off all the numbers to make nice codes for encrypted thoughts.
$64,354 sounds like $65,000
“Chicago Hotdog Friday”
That bitcoin is very dangerous if thr scammers will take your money then you lost it. If I am right
Wait for it wait ___ is the standard!
Don’t forget Wikileaks. You’ve previously reported like 5 emails out of millions...
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