(from January 28)
200,000 private, unencrypted messages from several users were hijacked when AlphaBay, an active dark web marketplace, was hacked this week.
The hacker exploited vulnerabilities in the internal mailing system of the site and held the site ransom for the messages.
The hacker posted five screenshots of private conversations to show AlphaBay the hack was real. The hacker made off with 218,000 private messages as well as usernames and user IDs.
AlphaBay paid the hacker and fixed the bug on its site.
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