The United States has sanctioned Hydra Market, the largest Russian language market on the darknet. It is reported US Treasury website.
In addition, restrictions were imposed on the Garantex Europe OÜ cryptocurrency exchange.
afternoon became known About the arrest of the Hydra servers by the German secret services.
In 2020 alone, 1.23 billion euros worth of services and goods were sold through the trading platform. According to the security forces, this is the largest turnover among all shadow sites on the darknet in the world. Currently, a banner has been posted on the forum website informing about the unavailability of the resource due to technical work.
Together with the equipment, the German secret services managed to arrest 543 bitcoins, equivalent to 23 million euros.
Hydra Market has been around since at least 2015. About 17 million users and more than 19 thousand merchant accounts are registered on the platform. The main goods throughout the platform’s existence were drugs, stolen and forged documents.