Cybersecurity
Pair Charged With Running Dark Web Market for Illicit Goods
- Prosecutors say ‘Empire Market’ did $430 million in sales
- Drugs and malicious computer programs were sold, US says
The dark web bazaar allegedly advertised illicit goods and services, including heroin, stolen credit card information and counterfeit currency.
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US prosecutors have charged two men with operating a dark web market where people around the world anonymously bought and sold more than $430 million worth of drugs, stolen information, counterfeit currency and malicious computer programs.
Federal prosecutors in Chicago accused Thomas Pavey and Raheim Hamilton of conspiring together and with others to engage in drug trafficking, computer fraud, money laundering and other crimes during their years running “Empire Market,” according to court documents unsealed on Thursday.