Written in his article, LE learned in December 2016 that Cazes' email was included in the header of Alphabay's welcome email to new users sent in December 2014. THEY WERE TIPPED OFF by someone.
Alexandre Cazes' email Pimp_Alex_91@hotmail.com was found in myspace, linkedin, exploit.in and 000webhost breaches too, and is confirmable on the website HaveIBeenPwned
He saved the server passwords in a unencrypted txt file. He also had a document describing his various financial assets in a txt file too in which he reportedly claimed to have a net worth of $23 million. He made blunder after blunder.
A guy was even able to reset Alexandre Cazes' Linkedin password and take control of the account, even his 000webhost account!!!
The article is well worth the read, do check it outl.
I've been reading thegrugq for a while. He's a security researcher and regularly writes articles on cybersecurity, anonymity, privacy, etc.
Unbelievable. You expect a few of us low level users to make these mistakes but not the guy in charge of the largest DNM ever seen.