Hydra Market

German authorities shut down Hydra Market on 5 April 2022, seized its servers, and confiscated bitcoin then valued at approximately $25 million. The preserved notice records two onion addresses associated with the market.

Operation

Not confirmed

Agency

German Federal Criminal Police, Frankfurt General Prosecutor's Office, U.S. Department of Justice

Category

darknet market

Action

marketplace and server seizure

BEFORE

No independently replayable pre-seizure capture of either listed onion 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.

• hydram6esdjf6otepmr5c3vjyndsoddz22afphbbjznwb5ln2c6op7ad.onion
• hydraclubbioknikokex7njhwuahc2l67lfiz7z36md2jvopda7nchid.onion

seized.fyi states that its domain lists are not always complete. Count: 2.

German authorities shut down Hydra Market on 5 April 2022, seized its servers, and confiscated bitcoin then valued at approximately $25 million. The preserved notice records two onion addresses associated with the market.

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OpenSpy object

Open preserved original

Upstream record

seized.fyi

Observed

2022-04-05

Media

image/png

Resolution

1920×1200

Bytes

580,677

SHA-256

4098d92a8634b73451695adbb9f422acbb4661bb9de5ed940244fbc363459be0

Upstream filename

4098d92a8634b73451695adbb9f422ac.png

1. Justice Department Investigation Leads to Shutdown of Largest Online Darknet Marketplace U.S. Department of Justice · official law-enforcement announcement
2. Hydra Market shutdown banner seized.fyi · seizure-banner archive