This is how the Hansa owner were caught

According to this article: https://www.wp.de/staedte/siegerland/neunkirchener-30-wegen-illegaler-darknet-plattform-in-haft-id211327799.html

Der Mendener IT-Forensiker Karsten Zimmer lieferte den Europol-Ermittlern den entscheidenden Hinweis: Bei der Überprüfung der Rechner der Mitarbeiter eines Unternehmens war Zimmer auf die verbotene Plattform gestoßen.

Der 52-Jährige: „Ein Zufallstreffer. Der Mann hatte illegal Kinderpornos heruntergeladen. Sein Rechner war mit Viren verseucht." Die Männer sitzen seit dem 21. Juni in Untersuchungshaft. In den Niederlanden, Deutschland und Litauen wurden außerdem Server, Rechner und Festplatten beschlagnahmt. 10 000 Adressen liegen Europol vor. Die Kunden müssen mit einer strafrechtlichen Verfolgung rechnen.

Translated:

The Mendener IT Forensiker Karsten Zimmer gave the Europol investigators the decisive hint: When checking the computers of the employees of a company, Zimmer had encountered the forbidden platform.

The 52-year-old: "It was a coincidence. The man had illegally downloaded child porn. His computer was infected with viruses." The men has been is in detention since June 21st. In the Netherlands, Germany and Lithuania, servers, computers and hard disks were confiscated. 10,000 postal addresses are available to Europol. Customers must expect criminal prosecution.

So it appears one of them was administering the website and watching child porn at work. Somehow he got a virus on his computer, the company called a specialist to remove it and this was it...


Comments


[52 Points] ForLol_Serious:

This sounds like a cover story, I don't believe it.


[38 Points] Polygon_Windows:

I find it hard to belive someone smart enough to build HANSA needed the help of an office technician to remove a virus from his machine, or that he'd take his child porn / darknet laptop into work and connect it to a network he knew would be monitored.


[10 Points] bhp5:

lmao bs


[9 Points] Eyeh8uAll:

Lol. I dont buy it at all. A hansa admin was dumb and lazy and downloaded CP at work and couldn't get virus off himself and allowed someone to do it, knowing himself that he downloaded CP on that computer? Lol. Ya ok LE. And i will also believe that Cazes computer was unencrypted, logged into alphabay and had that .txt notepad with all his passwords just like you said too. (Weird that Thai cops arrested him so they would of discovered all this information even tho most dont speak english or understand computers at all. So ya.... for sure true)


[8 Points] PM_UR_DNM_TAKEDOWNS:

Why would anyone download (child) porn on their work computer? I'm not buying this story.


[4 Points] yellyinbelly:

To me, after reading the text a couple of times bc it would have made no sense otherwise, the story goes like this:

Someones pc was virus infested and because of this cp was going through the wire... so said specialist was called to clean this corporate place.(maybe a hosting place?) By going through the corporate network said expert found hansa and delivered it to the cops....

still sounds a bit like parallel construction....


[3 Points] DarkNet_Shill:

das reich


[3 Points] Wheredmydickgo:

They're warning us that they don't care if they make us look like heathen pedophiles if thats what it takes to keep "their" drug money in their pockets. They out here thuggin


[2 Points] None:

If this is true I'm glad he's getting life.


[1 Points] BelizeTourismOffice:

Who here has encountered the forbidden platform? Sounds like a strange platform to be encounter.


[1 Points] Just4theDrama:

Thats not what the article says. He did not ask for help to remove viruses. He downloaded in work childporn. They knew it was downloaded to that company and the forensic searched the computers of the employees for who it was and found the Hansa related stuff