Germany Closes Russian Darknet Marketplace Hydra

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drugs but also stolen credit card data, counterfeit currency and fake identity documents, masking the identities of those involved using the
estimated 17 million customer accounts and 19,000 vendor accounts, the BKA said.Investigators do not know whether Hydra also has servers in
other countries but "assume this was the main hub" of the network's infrastructure, a spokesman for Frankfurt prosecution service's internet
crime office ZIT told AFP.Some experts speculate that Hydra could soon return despite Germany's action, restoring access to drugs and other
enforcement.Investigations into the illegal marketplace started in August 2021 and also involved several U.S
authorities, according to the BKA.Russian authorities had also been investigating Hydra since it was founded, Bederov said, but their
We know who sponsored the creation of Hydra, we know the programmers, we know about the offline events that were held a few years ago to