Hansa

Dutch authorities seized Hansa Market in June 2017, covertly operated it for roughly a month, and then took it offline as the AlphaBay shutdown was announced. The final seizure notice is preserved here at full resolution.

Operation

Operation Bayonet

Agency

Dutch National Police, Europol, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Administration

Category

darknet market

Action

covert takeover followed by marketplace shutdown

BEFORE

No reliable pre-takeover capture of this retired Tor v2 address was found in the public web archives reviewed.

AFTER

BEFORE is shown only when a separately sourced public capture exists strictly before the seizure date. AFTER is the content-addressed upstream seizure-banner object.

These are archival labels, not live links. A seized, expired, or reassigned domain is a poor place to send readers without warning.

• hansamkt2rr6nfg3.onion

seized.fyi states that its domain lists are not always complete. Count: 1.

Dutch authorities seized Hansa Market in June 2017, covertly operated it for roughly a month, and then took it offline as the AlphaBay shutdown was announced. The final seizure notice is preserved here at full resolution.

Read the reviewed case timeline →

OpenSpy object

Open preserved original

Upstream record

seized.fyi

Observed

2017-07-20

Media

image/png

Resolution

2559×1443

Bytes

1,411,018

SHA-256

3222492481beca484cb7950271319642b0638c67aa813d5ba1b6a3c8d65a9562

Upstream filename

3222492481beca484cb7950271319642.png

1. AlphaBay, the Largest Online Dark Market, Shut Down U.S. Department of Justice · official law-enforcement announcement
2. Hansa seizure banner seized.fyi · seizure-banner archive