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Re:Underground Hansa Market taken over and shut down by theEXTORTCIST on Thursday July 20, 2017 @05:37PM (#14816513)
Untrue according to the crabs article interview with the woman "Petra Haandrikman, team leader of the Dutch police unit that infiltrated Hansa."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/07/exclusive-dutch-cops-on-...

"H: Yes, we called them “AlphaBay refugees.” It wasn’t the technical challenge that caused problems. Because this was a police operation, we wanted to keep up with the orders to see if there were any large amounts [of drugs] being ordered to one place, [so that] we could share information with our law enforcement partners internationally."

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Re:Underground Hansa Market taken over and shut down by peteretep on Thursday July 20, 2017 @05:41PM (#14816544)
To me, that sounds like they were looking for resellers more than users
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Re:Underground Hansa Market taken over and shut down by theEXTORTCIST on Thursday July 20, 2017 @05:51PM (#14816603)
point taken, I had not read it this way originally but your interpretation makes sense

edit: I knew I saw something about this somewhere earlier today. Still, this proves nothing because it's source less.

https://www.politie.nl/en/news/2017/july/20/underground-hans... "Some 10,000 foreign addresses of Hansa Market buyers were passed on to Europol"

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