Operation Bayonet INVOLVES FBI
The FBI collaborated with Dutch and German authorities in Operation Bayonet.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 24 Details
“The FBI agreed to this plan and decided to call it Operation Bayonet.”
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Coordinated operation involving the FBI, Dutch authorities, German authorities, Lithuania, and Canada to seize AlphaBay and secretly control Hansa.
Coordinated operation involving the FBI, Dutch authorities, German authorities, Lithuania, and Canada to seize AlphaBay and secretly control Hansa.
“The FBI agreed to this plan and decided to call it Operation Bayonet.”
“The Dutch police raided the data center in Lithuania”
Operation and Darknet Diaries episode mentioned as covering AlphaBay.
“I did a whole episode on AlphaBay called Operation Bayonet. It’s Episode 24”
Operation associated in the episode with the federal takeover of Hansa and arrests of darknet-market vendors.
“Operation Bayonet, yeah”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | INVOLVES | FBI | Explicit | 24 |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | Dutch National High Tech Crime Unit | Explicit | 24 |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | Germany | Explicit | 24 |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | Lithuania | Explicit | 24 |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | Honeypot | Explicit | 24 |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | Metadata leakage | Explicit | 24 |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | IP address disclosure | Explicit | 24 |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | AlphaBay | Explicit | 24 |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | AlphaBay | Explicit | 81 |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | Hansa | Explicit | 24 |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | Hansa | Explicit | 132 |
Operation Bayonet INVOLVES FBI
The FBI collaborated with Dutch and German authorities in Operation Bayonet.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 24 Details
“The FBI agreed to this plan and decided to call it Operation Bayonet.”
Operation Bayonet INVOLVES Dutch National High Tech Crime Unit
Dutch authorities participated in Operation Bayonet and controlled Hansa as part of the plan.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 24 Details
“The authorities for Germany, Dutch, and the FBI collaborated on a plan.”
Operation Bayonet INVOLVES Germany
German authorities participated in the coordinated Hansa takeover and arrests.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 24 Details
“The authorities for Germany, Dutch, and the FBI collaborated on a plan.”
Operation Bayonet INVOLVES Lithuania
Lithuania supported the raid on the Hansa data center.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 24 Details
“Lithuania agreed to the plan”
Operation Bayonet INVOLVES Honeypot
The Dutch-controlled Hansa marketplace was used as a honeypot to collect information about criminals.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 24 Details
“The Dutch police had set up a honeypot by using a very popular drug marketplace”
Operation Bayonet INVOLVES Metadata leakage
Authorities collected photo metadata that sellers had failed to remove, including dates, cameras, and sometimes geolocation.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 24 Details
“This would reveal the date, time, camera that was used to take the photo, and sometimes geo-location”
Operation Bayonet INVOLVES IP address disclosure
Authorities distributed a purported backup key that acted as a homing beacon and revealed users' real IP addresses.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 24 Details
“They claimed this file was a backup encryption key ... It ... would reveal that person’s real IP address.”
Operation Bayonet INVOLVES AlphaBay
Operation Bayonet included the planned takedown of AlphaBay.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 24 Details
“with the takedown of AlphaBay and the government controlling Hansa”
Operation Bayonet INVOLVES Hansa
Operation Bayonet included the Dutch takeover and controlled operation of Hansa before AlphaBay was taken down.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 24 Details
“they wanted to get control of Hansa before AlphaBay was to be taken down”
Operation Bayonet INVOLVES AlphaBay
Jack identifies Operation Bayonet as an episode about AlphaBay.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 81 Details
“I did a whole episode on AlphaBay called Operation Bayonet.”
Operation Bayonet INVOLVES Hansa
The episode identifies Operation Bayonet in connection with the takedown of Hansa and arrests of vendors.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 132 Details
“Hansa went down – your stuff is all over that database. That was taken over by the feds”
“Operation Bayonet, yeah”