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The prosecutor’s office in Stuttgart, together with the US judicial authorities, crashed the global hacker network “Hive”.


The global hacker network “Hive” has been crashed. This was announced in a joint press release by the Reutlingen police station and the Stuttgart prosecutor’s office. Operation “Dawn Breaker” was successful in cooperation with the US judiciary.

At the center of the operation is the criminal group “Hive” operating on the dark web. IT structures served “to carry out only the most severe cyberattacks”. The purpose of hackers was to blackmail companies, authorities and institutions. “Hive” websites were blocked, numerous servers were seized, data and accounts of the network and its users were secured.

Source: ZDF

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