AlphaBay, one of the largest criminal Dark Web markets, has been taken down by authorities in a coordinated International operation. AlphaBay and Hansa markets are “responsible for the trading of over 350,000 illicit commodities including drugs, firearms and cybercrime malware” The raids also resulted in the arrest of Alexandre Cazes, a 26-year-old Canadian citizen who was one of AlphaBay’s operators and was awaiting extradition to the US when a guard found him hanged in his jail cell the next day. Cazes made the same mistake that most cyber criminals do which led to his real identity leading to his arrest.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2017/07/alphabay-hansa-darkweb-markets-seized.html