Historical and current darknet marketplaces - status, founding dates, seizure history, and exit scams. Data sourced from Dread, TorTaxi, and public reporting.
Resurrection of BreachForums after Pompompurin arrest. Short-lived.
Brief revival attempt after arrest.
Emerging marketplace post-Hydra. Drugs, data, fraud.
Active as of 2024. Growing user base.
Newer marketplace with drugs, fraud, and digital goods.
Active as of 2024.
Drug-focused marketplace with escrow system.
Active.
Exit scam March 2024. Operator disappeared with escrow.
Exit scam. Operator "riddle" vanished.
Data breach marketplace. Seized by FBI. Admin Pompompurin arrested.
Multiple iterations: v1 seized, v2 "BreachForums.VC" also seized. Pompompurin arrested Sept 2023.
Russian-language successor to Hydra. Large product catalog.
Active. One of the largest post-Hydra markets.
Russian-language marketplace. Drugs, forged documents.
Active. Major Russian market.
English-language marketplace. Drugs, fraud, digital goods.
Active. Growing user base.
English-language marketplace. Drugs, fraud, services.
Active.
Seized by law enforcement March 2024.
Seized March 2024. Operator arrested.
Russian-language marketplace for stolen data, access brokers.
Active. Popular among Russian-speaking threat actors.
Exit scam Dec 2023. Large vendor base lost funds.
Exit scam with estimated $10M+ in escrow.
Seized by German BKA December 2023. Operator arrested.
Seized Dec 2023. Operator sentenced.
Exit scammed Aug 2022. Vendors lost escrow funds.
Exit scam with estimated $3M+ in vendor funds.
Multi-purpose marketplace. Shut down voluntarily.
Shut down June 2021.
Privacy-focused marketplace. Voluntary shutdown with exit scam concerns.
Forced Monero-only policy. Shut down Oct 2021.
Russian-language marketplace. Stolen cards, credentials, logs.
Active. Focus on carding and credential stuffing.
Cannabis-focused marketplace. Voluntary closure.
Shut down May 2021. Merged with White House Market users.
Infostealer marketplace selling browser fingerprints and stolen cookies. Seized in FBI Operation Cookie Monster.
Seized April 2023. Domain seized by FBI.
Largest darknet market by volume. Seized by German BKA. $25M+ in crypto confiscated.
Infrastructure seized April 2022. Successor markets emerged.