Admins and staff of the largest darknet drug marketplace - Alphabay - have been doxxed on reddit even after paying an extortion amount of $45,000
111 2017-03-27 by flipkt
No doxx linked in this post
Vice article detailing the doxxers extorting the AlphaBay mods
Judging by the messages, it appears alphabaysupport may have paid 35 bitcoin (around $45,000) to the extortionist in February.
"The amount the attacker asked for was reasonable so we paid, but once we paid, he said he wanted more," alphabaysupport claimed. "We have a very strong policy of not paying an extortionist twice, so he is now making throwaway accounts and sending us proofs of his Jabber conversation with you in an effort to extort more coins from us. Now we are just ignoring him and we hope he will just get tired shortly."
The question is, why did alphabaysupport so readily "admit" to a journalist that they paid an extortion demand? It's unclear whether or not that would simply increase the chance of more extortion.
According to alphabaysupport, however, there's another reason they paid on top of the threat of identification: "to avoid a potential reddit shitstorm."
Reddit discussion of this article 1
The account mentioned in the Vice article is /u/alphabaysupport. This account, AlphaBay's PR account /u/trappy_AB and another alphabay admin /u/GMSleep have been silent about this.
Fast forward to yesterday, the extortionist has released the dox of one of the alphabay admins called "DeSnake" on reddit. This retard apparently registered a domain name that is a split-up version of his username using real personal information.
The State Of Alphabay? We among ourselves have to honestly have a discussion if we as a community are safe or not. To make it extra spicy, the doxxer is in the thread arguing with the users.
Alphabay Doxxes -/r/darknetmarkets
The doxx was posted on /r/ fraud net and it's still there in their front page as of now. I've reported it btw.
UPDATE: This from the doxxer:
its a long long story that been going on for over a year 1/2 ... were going to be dropping the rest of the doxs from day to day then we will drop some of the bugs our person found we have 2 . one is meeh okay not really to bad the other is fucking bad :) stay tuned
More shitstorms incoming
UPDATE 2: /r/fraudnet has been finally banned after having the name, wife's name address, social media accounts etc. of two of the Alphabay admins for 2 full days on their front page. /r/fraudnet2 is still going strong though. Thanks admins.
The doxxer /u/lsm1324 has been posting doxx for 5 days and has been finally suspended too. He can be seen arguing with people in yesterday's threads. (He's now back as /u/lsm1312 and he's going to be a big headache for the admins in the coming days lol. No dox on this account)
UPDATE 3: One more alt of the doxxer running around /u/allcopsarebastards13.
Now an ex-mod posts a bullshit "analysis" by linking some comments made by the doxxer's alts and claims the dox is fake. Current mod claims that this is proof it's all fake and stickies the comment and removes all comments questioning these claims including screenshots by /u/allcopsarebastards13.
UPDATE 4: DeSnake, the alphabay admin doxxed, had his dox spread 7 months ago. Link. /u/alphabaysupport can be seen trying to bullshit the claims.
+Link on the doxxing of the head admin of alphabay, "alpha02", where /u/alphabaysupport claims alphabay is so secure, even NSA can't get close to them:
There's a post on fraudnet about someone potentially being alpha02 - we don't think it's true, because if it was that obvious, he'd already be busted.
The new admins that took the lead in August 2015 know their stuff, and are 100% confident that no clue can lead to them. As they said in our private group that, "we have NSA-proof security and it would take an army to get us"
102 comments
n/a PM_ME_HAIRLESS_CATS 2017-03-27
So who contacted the FBI with these dank infos?
n/a flipkt 2017-03-27
They're based in Germany. But i doubt any LE action would come out of the released dank info, maybe another clue in their investigation of darknet markets.
n/a PM_ME_HAIRLESS_CATS 2017-03-27
US criminal jurisdiction extends to Germany.
n/a flipkt 2017-03-27
I dont know about specific extradition laws for running a drug marketplace, but they've been contact for a while now and he knows his dox is out so he probably cleaned up his act. They should be onto him IMO. Also we wont know until they actually make an arrest or maybe he's cooperating.
n/a hypochondriac12 2017-03-27
how did the doxxer know how much money was left in the wallet? im not familiar with all this darknet market shit
n/a flipkt 2017-03-27
Which wallet? The doxxer and the admins negotiated an amount and the funds were transferred.
n/a murderhomelesspeople 2017-03-27
I think the real question is why is AlphaBay still up and running accepting orders and working fine? What sort of protections do these people have that releasing their doxx is not enough to stop operating.
n/a flipkt 2017-03-27
They have a system where if one of the admins didn't login for 48(?) hours, the access to their account would be passed down to the admin next in line. Admins probably only know eachother through pseudonyms and anonymous secure communication channels, not IRL contacts. So compromising one admin might not compromise the web server, other admins and vendors. At least that's whatever i read about suggests.
n/a murderhomelesspeople 2017-03-27
Well according to if this guy is to be believed Alpha02 has been gone since 2015 but his photos are so grainy it's hard to believe they are legit.
I find it hard to believe the creators would not be looking to exit scam and take their final prize instead of passing all the power onto the next in line which leaves them with nothing and an exposed identity.
If this guy has all the real doxx info then it's pretty magical if he managed to doxx DeSnake, Alpha02, Raspi and disc0.
n/a flipkt 2017-03-27
Alpha02 dox if legit, that much i know for sure.
Why would they want to exit scam if the doxxed admin doesn't have access to the servers and they are isolated from the compromised guy? They're making boat loads of money as a steady income and would continue to do so until they feel LE closing in on them and then decide to exit scam.
They could be planning an exit scam as we speak now too. They probably have all sorts of analytics to suggest the time period of most activity and most number of coins in their escrow and are probably waiting for the most opportune time to run with the most coins, we won't know until they do it.
Doxxing has happened in all sort of scenarios before and it's not impossible for the doxxer to dig up PI of multiple people. I've seen the dox and I've not seen a single solid discrepancy yet, so I think it's legit.
/u/alphabaysupport is the doxxed admin, btw. Check his last comment. That post was posted by the doxxer as bait for /u/alphabaysupport since he knew the support account typically responds to complaint posts. He post it so that he can post the dox as reply to /u/alphabaysupport and the admin can see it before other mods remove the dox. That's exactly what happened, and after he replied with the dox, the admin has gone AWOL immediately. This is just the only thing I can post without directly linking to the dox that suggests the dox is real.
n/a murderhomelesspeople 2017-03-27
We only assume the compromised admins have been isolated. All they have to do is login before every 48hours which can be accomplished rather quickly and even by LE if they we're cooperating.
It's all very intriguing. alphabaysupport announcing they won't be taking reddit messages suddenly was pretty odd and only helps this guys case.
I saw some supposed alpha02 doxx a while ago, it comes up every once in a while. I'm really curious as to why this guy's screen shot is so blurry though, almost makes it seem doctored.
In all reality both sides are probably lying about certain things.
n/a flipkt 2017-03-27
Yes, no reason to believe anyone's being completely truthful but I'm firmly on the doxxer's side of the claims for now. DeSnake is fucked though
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n/a MakeAmericaSageAgain 2017-03-27
Haha, no I'm actually more into experimental stuff. My dealer likes them though, of course.
n/a 2cblover 2017-03-27
Fuck off
n/a 2cblover 2017-03-27
Maybe he can post it here so they shut this sub down.
n/a pubic_centipede 2017-03-27
just make your own jenkem
n/a allcopsarebastards13 2017-03-27
i was there and explained it too him and even ds admitted it was him .. im putting everything all payments , convos , etc together with the dox's and will put it on a tor web server . also ill be loading all the info to 45 usb's and mailing them to new agency's (ones that write about darknet stuff) so they can review and look at everything and see that alpha02 dox is correct (gotta be a moron not to see that ) and that Ds dox is correct and that Disc0 dox is correct..oh yeah and dropping raspis dox when its time to
n/a Mabans 2017-03-27
Who know being in a community dealing with illegal activity would yield less than honorable folk?
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n/a ay_what_up 2017-03-27
imagine being this much of a loser. Not only is this guy prob a neet landwhale, he's acting like anybody actually values him now that he's doxxed some randoms. Newsflash, youre still an invisible nerd to pretty much everyone normal
n/a DrOpiodergic 2017-03-27
Why would Russians run anywhere? They can pay officials to leave them alone and u think the Kremlin is going to let the FBI or CIA or any other justice department NEAR they're people then you have a LOT to learn about Russian culture. If you're there and you have money you're untouchable.
n/a DrOpiodergic 2017-03-27
You do if your making millions a year...that's a small pittance.
1 ComedicSans 2017-03-27
That is why crackers should be deported.