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Vulnerability in Huge Dark Web Marketplace Exposes Private Messages

April 27, 2016

AlphaBay, possibly the largest dark web marketplace at the moment, is also the most innovative. Last year, its administrators launched a fully automatic credit card shop, and offered contracts for just about anything. More recently, the market has enforced two-factor authentication for all vendors.

But one of AlphaBay’s technological developments has backfired.

This week, the market launched an API feature, allowing users to pull certain details from their accounts without logging in for ease of use.

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