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we never did what we were claiming to do with your data but this time we'll really delete it if you pay us, promise
I feel like paying for your data to be removed will be used as further evidence by the Feds of your identity. If you just leave it be, you can claim plausible deniability and suggest that anyone can use any address as a decoy/dead drop, which is a common tactic for dark web vendors.
Yeah that’s a fairly common understanding of the situation thus far. Speculation at this point is that they are already in cooperation with the Feds and have been for some time
I won't be surprised if this is a CIA fundraising thing.
The CIA definitely works with crypto to acquire black market cyber tools, among other illicit activities, but I can’t imagine the profits from a market ransom being that great compared to traditional gun running and drug trafficking (or just creative banking and front orgs).
And also we super promise that even though we have a bounty of probably millions on our heads right now that we will totally be honest with your extortion transaction and not only not leak your data to the only people (govt agencies) who will care about protecting us, but also we super promise to permanently delete your data. We also super promise to delete our backdoor key to the site-wide auto encryption so any transaction and chat data which already exists will be inaccessible forever.
To be fair anyone who’s foolish to use an on-site encryption feature is foolish. Almost every basic deep web guide explicitly says to use your OS’ pre-downloaded encryption apps and to never trust a site’s encryption.
I mean yeah of course, but it tracks 100%. People who already think they are smart for using the dark web and crypto would many times be the exact people who think they’ve already taken adequate precautions. A learned fool is more of a fool than an ignorant fool.