Another one bites the dust (for now):
Black Market Reloaded, one of the most successful Deep Web black markets of all time and the heir apparent to Silk Road, has abruptly shut down. Founder Backopy announced earlier today that the market’s source code was discovered and leaked by a hacker.
Attempting to connect to Black Market Reloaded leaves a user with an error message: “Error connecting to DB!”
Black Market Reloaded was founded in June 2011 after Silk Road achieved worldwide fame thanks to an article in Gawker. It has been the second-most profitable Deep Web black market for the majority of its existence.
To maintain anonymity, Backopy wrote that he used both a Virtual Private Server and the powerful anonymizing technology of Tor. That choice backfired on him when an administrator at the VPS apparently “stole the code and leaked it.”
“This means I can’t operate anymore.”
Read more at the Daily Dot.