The Evolution Market, an online black market that sells everything from drugs to stolen identities and malicious hacking services appears to have vanished in the last 24 hours with little warning.
According to journalist Brian Krebs, the curators of the project have left with the community’s Bitcoins, believed to be worth more than $12 million.
The Evolution Market quickly emerged as the go-to online bazaar for buyers and sellers of illicit goods following the shutdown of the Silk Road marketplaces in 2013 and 2014 and users of the darkweb community said the moderators in charge of Evolution (known as just “Evo” by vendors and buyers alike) had in the past few days instituted long delays in responding to and processing withdrawal requests from the marketplace’s myriad vendors.
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