I was crying!
I have heard of this. But I can´t say if it is true or not! But we have a Darknetcase in court about this guy (Meme is in German, but it is a yuge case of fuckery!) In my eyes, this is big stuff! But no further updates to see…
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It was a digital hideout for cybercriminals: a server center in a former bunker that criminals around the globe used to run their crimes. The hideout has now been exposed.
Lautzenhausen (dpa) - The control center for criminal business worth millions in the Darknet has been hidden in a former bunker.
Behind a heavy iron door, server after server were lined up over five floors underground, through which criminals from all over the world sold drugs in the darknet, handled counterfeit money transactions, sent child porn or launched cyber attacks.
Since Thursday, the computer center in the ex-bunker in Traben-Trarbach on the Moselle has been shut down. In a major operation, investigators rooted out the operators of the large server facility after almost five years of preliminary work. Seven of the 13 suspects, aged between 20 and 59, are in custody.
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It is a special blow in the fight against cybercrime, as the head of the Koblenz Prosecutor General's Office, JĂĽrgen Brauer, emphasized on Friday: "It is the first time in Germany that investigations are not being conducted against operators of stores or marketplaces, but against those who make these crimes possible in the first place."
And meant precisely the operators of computers that ran "in the very large data center" so that "customers" could use them for their websites and criminal activities. The ex-bunker is believed to have a capacity of about 2000 servers.
The main actor was a 59-year-old Dutchman who had taken the lead in setting up and running the "cyber bunker" from the end of 2013, said Johannes Kunz, president of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Criminal Police Office (LKA). It was a "bulletproof hoster" that pursued the goal of using "the highest security standards" to protect criminal customers from the access of state authorities. Quasi a digital hideout for cyber criminals. The Dutchman, who had already attracted attention in the Netherlands, had connections to organized crime.
The seven suspects - six men and one woman - are suspected of membership in a criminal organization, aiding and abetting hundreds of thousands of cases of serious drug offenses, counterfeit money transactions, data theft and aiding and abetting the distribution of child pornography. The number of customers cannot yet be estimated, Kunz said. The darknet is a shielded part of the Internet.
However, he said, it is already clear that a number of marketplaces and forums are running their crimes via the servers in Rhineland-Palatinate: For example, the operators of the world's second largest darknet marketplace for drugs, "Wall Street Market" - which investigators broke up in the spring. According to Brauer, 250,000 deals involving narcotics went through this platform. Turnover 41 million euros.
The attack on 1.25 million Telekom routers at the end of November 2016 was also controlled via a server in the "cyber bunker," according to the attorney general's office. The client base also included the site "Cannabis Road" with 87 sellers of drugs of all kinds, the underground forum "Fraudsters" with thousands of drug deals, and platforms such as "orangechemicals," "acechemstore" and "lifestylepharma" for synthetic drugs.
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The raid, which involved 650 police from Germany and support from special units such as the GSG9, also included searches in Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Poland, he said. Six people were arrested in Traben-Trarbach and one in Schwalbach in Hesse, he said. Some of the searches were still ongoing, LKA chief Kunz said.
The technical and criminal tactical challenges were immense in this "outstanding procedure," Brauer said. The roughly 13,000-square-meter site had been fenced off and guarded, he said. Digitally cracking the system was also complex.
In addition, there were legal aspects: Operating a data center that hosts illegal sites is not in itself punishable, Brauer said. It would therefore have to be proven to the operators that they were "aware of the illegal behavior of the customers and also encouraged it."
Evaluating the stored data in the former Bundeswehr bunker will take months or years, he said. "The material is gigantic," Kunz said. It is to be expected, he said, that it will result in a number of further investigative proceedings. National and international cooperation is needed there, too, he said. "Cybercriminals know no borders."
https://www.welt.de/newsticker/dpa_nt/infoline_nt/netzwelt/article201049836/Erstes-deutsches-Darknet-Zentrum-in-altem-Bunker-ausgehoben.html
The body fits not really with the head… The head is fucking too small… Crazy looking dude!