Riches to Wretchedness: The Fall of Alexandre Cazes and the Resurrection of AlphaBay

Written by blackheart | Published 2024/04/03
Tech Story Tags: darkweb | cybercrime | drug-war | risks-of-the-dark-web | alphabay | true-cyber-crime-story | alexandre-cazes | dark-web-storefront

TLDRThe Crash That Brought the Shadow to the Light. On the morning of July 5, 2017, a gray Toyota Camry turned into the cul-de-sac of a neighborhood in Bangkok in a subdivision on the western edge of the city. A driver makes a miscalculation on a 180-degree turn and accidentally causes a collision with a front gate on a model home and real estate office. The driver exits the vehicle obviously upset about the event and needs to speak with the owner of the model house about the accident. via the TL;DR App

The Crash that brought the shadow to the light.

On the morning of July 5, 2017, a gray Toyota Camry turned into the cul-de-sac of a neighborhood in Bangkok in a subdivision on the western edge of the city. A driver makes a miscalculation on a 180-degree turn and accidently causing a collision with a front gate on model home and real estate office. The driver exits the vehicle obviously upset about the event and needs to speak with the owner of the model house about the accident. After a significant time, elapsed Alexander Caze surfaced from his home to discuss the collision at the front gate of his home. As Alexander Caze made his way to have the conversation with the person of the vehicle, the FBI stormed the property arresting Alexander Caze aka “Alpha02” and “Admin online” the owner of the Dark Web marketplace AlphaBay. The largest marketplace on the Darknet where hundreds of thousands of cyber criminals bought and sold drugs, weapons, hacking tools, stolen identities, and a host of other illegal goods and services.

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Written by blackheart | A cybersecurity professional with a wealth of experience in IT security, incident response and ethical hacking.
Published by HackerNoon on 2024/04/03