The Associated Press reports German police have shut down a datacentre installed in a former NATO bunker-- one hosting sites dealing with illegal activities such as drug sales and child pornography.
The former military bunker is found in Traben-Trarbach, a town on the Mosel River in W. Germany. Dubbed the "CyberBunker," the datacentre promised "bulletproof" hosting for illegal services. One such service was "Wall Street Market," a criminal marketplaces selling drugs, stolen financial data and hacking tools that was taken down earlier this year. Furthermore, the datacentre was used in a 2016 DDoS attack on Deutsche Telekom that knocked out around 1 million customers' routers.
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