129 .onions seized on Bulgarian hosting company

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The investigation in the Bulgarian Internet space have been identified and suspended 129 hidden websites offering multiple services in TOR network, including the distribution of sexual abuse of children, distribution profiles payment platforms, credit card, drugs, weapons contract killings, illegal trade in Bitcoin and money laundering. In their place is placed special banner of the operation (see photo). Used is the infrastructure hosting company in Bulgaria. All information of the servers providing the services is copied.

Could any native Bulgarians check this translation? Does the original actually imply that it was a single 'infrastructure hosting company'?

(Courtesy of https://twitter.com/RasmusMunks )


Comments


[5 Points] None:

This is incredibly boring, and makes more sense the more I think of it.

Sucks.


[3 Points] sharpshooter789:

Hopefully this is useful.

If you are not aware doxxbin was seized as well. Fortunately, they posted information on the tor-dev mailing list. They included a full copy of their site (including logs). But the most interesting detail I saw is they were hosted by Hetzner based in Germany. Here's a quote from their post and a link to the full text. I suggest you read the full post they have some information about some odd requests they were receiving about a month or so before the seizure.

  1. The box (An OpenVZ VPS) was hosted with Hetzner in Germany. People on Twitter keep asking if the box was in Bulgaria, but we didn't use Bulgaria for one simple reason: The very first doxbin box (Bought in 2011) was with a VPS company in Bulgaria. After the first month, they said "TOR IS ILLEGAL" (I shit you not), killed the box, and kept the $5 we had paid for the 2nd month. Can't say I blame them.

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-November/007731.html


[2 Points] None:

That still wouldn't explain how the other 285 site were taken down.


[1 Points] cindelle2:

wonder what the future holds for btc-e.com since they too are bulgarian and play a laundering role on dnm's. wonder if theyll be met with the same fate as bitinstant?


[1 Points] bontchev:

I am a native Bulgarian. The translation is reasonably good, the main problems are minimal like punctuation and tense. Yes, the original unambiguously says that the infrastructure of a single Bulgarian ISP was used. Here is my version:

"During the investigation, 129 hidden sites were located and taken down in the Bulgarian Internet space. They were offering a multitude of services within the TOR network, including the distribution of materials depicting sexual abuse of children, distribution of profiles for payment platforms (?), credit card data, drugs, weapons, contract killings, illegal trade in Bitcoin and money laundering. On their place was put a special banner for the operation (see photo). The infrastructure of a Bulgarian ISP was used. The whole information from the servers offering the services has been copied."

It is not clear whether the infrastructure of the Bulgarian ISP was used to host the hidden services or to execute the takedown operation. Also, trading in Bitcoin is not illegal in Bulgaria, so the author of the text probably meant using Bitcoin as a medium of exchange for performing illegal activities (like money laundering).


[1 Points] gwern:

Was it VPSBG.eu?