The admins of Sheep Market, a Tor site where drugs are traded, have the plug out of the site, drawn after 5400 Bitcoin would be stolen. Black Market Reloaded, an other narcoticamarktplaats, says the influx of new customers not to be able to and also stops temporarily.
According to the Sheep Market-admins has one of the dealers, who are the trading was active and would operate under the name Ebook101, a vulnerability found on the anonymous Tor site. Then he would 5400 Bitcoin, at the time of writing, approximately 5.6 million dollars, looted from the trading platform for drug dealers and users. Also, a part of the commission of the site administrators have been stolen.
The owners behind Sheep Market would be the site offline. Also would be promised the remaining Bitcoins on the platform “secure,” but the company would be the record of the virtual currency a week ago blocked. Also, there would be the Bitcoin blockchain evidence found that strangers tens of thousands of Bitcoins to other wallets have transferred.
In addition to the suspicious closure of Sheep, the Market will also be a ‘competitor’ Black Market Reloaded shut its doors. According to the administrators, the site is not calculated on the current influx of new customers, partly because the Tor-anonimiseringsprotocol should not be associated with a large number of visitors. The administrators would be working to improve the marketplace, which early next year in the air. They argue, furthermore, that there are no Bitcoins seized will be.
The shadowy world of Tor marketplaces for drugs and other contraband is on the move after in October the possible administrator of Silk Road was arrested. Various competitors of this platform were new visitors, while there is also a ‘version 2.0’ of Silk Road has appeared.