Omega market hacked question?

If it was so easy to hack Omega market dox them find IP and steal coin..... Why can't this be done to any vendor on reddit or AB?


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[4 Points] crakbenz:

Because an inexperienced developer who doesn't understand the principles of good opsec when it comes to creating, owning and hosting a DNM creates a much larger paper trail than a reddit account or a vendor account on a market thats created by people who know what they're doing.

I've never even heard of this market bu it was probably because the creator didn't think it through well enough.

A username on a forum or market only gives you their alias and their common word usage and phrases, wheereas creating and hosting a market creates physical evidence like files on computers or something that can indicate a timeline of creation like forum posts [like what happened with ross when he was asking questions online regarding tor websites] and then hosting the site files, which is the most difficult and risky part for a market owner because the server which holds the website files is what is gonna be the main hotbed for information leading back to the owner, they could have their site hosted on a very shady third party offshore type host in a weird country but the owners of that place could go rouge and take over the site themselves, or if the site files were hosted somewhere where the feds or attackers who can social engineer workers can get in contact to disclose information regarding connections to the server for example.

As for stealing coins, the system in place was likely a centralized wallet that all site funds are held in, and code on the site displays an allocated amount for the users account when a deposit is made or if funds sent, the amount shown available in the wallet would go down, well this is the perfect system for a marketplace hacker to target because it effectively allows the draining of all the sites funds in an instant.

I am not going to go on in too much detail, but there is certainly a lot of ways hackers could get access to a market and dox the owner.


[1 Points] None:

alphabay gets a lot of hate from the community (and for good reasons), but that place is rock solid. It rarely has any downtime.