German police say illegal sales on the site amounted to at least £1bn a year
German police say shutting down the infamous darknet site took months of cyber investigation
Police say 17 million customers and more than 19,000 seller accounts were registered on the marketplace, which now carries a police seizure notice.Written in Russian, Hydra served multiple countries with same day drugs deliveries The website launched in 2015 selling drugs, hacked materials, forged documents and illegal digital services such as Bitcoin-mixing - which cyber-criminals use to launder stolen or extorted digital coins.
"We got some hints through monitoring darknet activity from US officials. So we started in July or August last year to dig deeper and to investigate this field," he says.Visitors to the darknet site are now greeted with a police seizure notice Mr Zweibel says his investigators then took their evidence to a German judge to get permission to approach the server company and issue a takedown notice.Visitors to the site are now greeted with a police poster saying "the platform and the criminal content has been seized".Although celebrating their success, German authorities say they fear this won't be the end of the Hydra cyber-crime group, unless they can find and arrest them.
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