Genesis Market: Formerly a Popular Dark Web Marketplace Now up for Sale

If one wishes to own a defunct darknet business, they could try reaching out to the backers of Genesis Market, the formerly high-and-mighty seller of stolen data. Today, they appear to be desperate to sell their formerly valued asset for scrap.

According to a report by The Record, several advertisements for the sale of Genesis have recently appeared on underground forums. The FBI deactivated the website early this year as part of an investigation that saw the arrest of numerous site administrators and users. The platform had previously been a popular location for hacking services and stolen data.

The FBI later conducted hundreds of raids in countries all over the world, where several websites were seized that effectively crippled the platform’s operation. One might assume that there would not be much left to sell given the extent of the operation.

However, according to The Record, on June 28 a user account that appears to be associated with Genesis’ operators started posting about the business’s sale. The user asserted that the darknet platform of the marketplace was still functional and that the FBI had only taken control of the open web domains of the marketplace. Reportedly, the sale involves illegal business infrastructures, including “a complete database (except for some details of the client base), source codes, scripts, with a certain agreement, as well as server infrastructure.”

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