AlphaBay

Operation Bayonet shut down AlphaBay in July 2017. The U.S. Department of Justice described it as the largest online darknet market at the time, and the preserved seizure notice records a legacy v2 onion address associated with the service.

Operation

Operation Bayonet

Agency

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

Category

darknet market

Action

darknet marketplace takedown

BEFORE

No reliable pre-seizure 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.

• pwoah7foa6au2pul.onion

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

Operation Bayonet shut down AlphaBay in July 2017. The U.S. Department of Justice described it as the largest online darknet market at the time, and the preserved seizure notice records a legacy v2 onion address associated with the service.

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OpenSpy object

Open preserved original

Upstream record

seized.fyi

Observed

2017-07-20

Media

image/png

Resolution

2560×1443

Bytes

1,425,371

SHA-256

45d7dda5fbed5abda12d5f1676b9247e9fcb5ef65473aa778bcba11764da4eff

Upstream filename

45d7dda5fbed5abda12d5f1676b9247e.png

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