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October 17, 2013 11:22 pm GMT

'BlackMarket Reloaded' Online Drug Bazaar Closes After Code Leak

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Just weeks after the FBI took down Silk Road, the Internet's largest "sprawling black market bazaar," one of its main competitors has also gone down. Though it appears the feds aren't behind it.

BlackMarket Reloaded, which launched in 2011, was permanently taken down Thursday for precautionary reasons after someone stole and leaked the site's source code, according to BMR's owner, who goes by the alias "backopy."

See also: Exclusive: Inside the World of a Silk Road Drug Dealer

"The [virtual private server] admin had stole the code and leaked it," backopy wrote on the BMR forum. "This means I can't operate anymore." Read more...

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