Security News > 2017 > July > One Simple Error Led to AlphaBay Admin's Downfall (InfoRiskToday)

Compartmentation Fail Analysis: Darknet Admin Reused Personal Hotmail AddressHollywood loves to portray hackers as wunderkinds with such exceptional cybercrime mojo that they can hack or crack anything. But as the AlphaBay takedown demonstrates, a simple mistake - reusing a Hotmail address - led to the administrator and site's arrest and downfall.

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