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Online Black Market ‘Silk Road’ Shut Down
On the Silk Road website, drugs, hackers and hit men were available on sale to anonymous buyers for more than two years. Now the FBI has busted what it claims is the mastermind. The FBI says the Silk Road is the “most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the Internet today.”
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readOn the Silk Road website, drugs, hackers and hit men were available on sale to anonymous buyers for more than two years. Now the FBI has busted what it claims is the mastermind. The FBI says the Silk Road is the “most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the Internet today.” We’ll hear about the alleged mastermind, arrested in San Francisco.
