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AlphaBay’s security seemed impenetrable—until a small team from a dusty central California city received a fortuitous tip: Years ago, a quickly-fixed server misconfiguration had briefly exposed the sender of the AlphaBay welcome email: [email protected] 5/8 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 25, 2022 Hibernated

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Cazes believed, as many did before him, that crypto’s anonymity paired with genius technological ability would protect him—but just as crypto had opened up new markets for criminals, so had it opened up new opportunities for law enforcement. 4/8 https://t.co/ja1jxoMeXn — PolitiTweet.org

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The team used that email to dig through piles of social media and internet history—mostly finding Cazes numbingly unsuspecting. But one Internet Archive dig turned up something interesting: a deleted profile that showed he had written on a forum under another name: Alpha02. 6/8 https://t.co/oDo32lNRCv — PolitiTweet.org

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