When the authorities took down the Silk Road they quickly put up a banner on the site alerting users to the operation. AlphaBay users have flocked to Reddit to speculate about what happened and express concern about their drug supplies and deposits on the site. AlphaBay and other sites have gone offline before because of maintenance problems and attacks by hackers, and have then come back online. The authorities took down the Silk Road because its creator, Ross Ulbricht, accidentally revealed his real email address in an early online post about the site. An 18-year-old in Portland, Ore., died after taking U-47700 that she bought from PeterTheGreat on AlphaBay, the authorities said.

Source: New York Times July 06, 2017 23:20 UTC