How Kingdom Market Fell into the hands of law enforcement

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How Kingdom Market Fell into the hands of law enforcement

Context
Kingdom market's seizure was short-coming and there have been plenty of mistakes the administrators made throughout running their market. Today I'm going to be talking about the exact mistakes I've been informed about that Kingdom Market have made; all being provided by trusted sources. Based on current activity, ohlongjohnson was online 24 hours ago while the head admin papian 18 hours ago so we speculate they are still active. Though this could be an instance where a dead-man switch was triggered and information was passed onto Kingdom Market's representatives, alerting them of the seizure. Though from /u/Paris's spectulation it's said to be that the Kingdom Market's administrators have been arrested and Kingdom Market was seized by BKA (Germany law enforcement).

The leaking of their IP:
Our team has noticed that Kingdom market at one point was leaking an IP address whic raised our concern if wheter this was an IP leak, though we weren't particularly sure if this was a proxy or if it was an actual IP address of kingdom market that they were leaking. Nonetheless, the leaking of an IP regardless of it being a proxy or an actual IP address should raise concerns of how insecure, undeveloped and hazardous the market was. When Darkipedia confronted the administrators and told them the information we've acquired of their market, we were told "not to worry" and they're "aware of the issue." Though as of a few days ago, we were able to reveal this IP address was still active and running. The IP addresses were still being used to run Kingdom Market.

IP addresses we've found:
IP: 63.x.x.x
IP 2: 162.x.x.x


Namecheap:
Furthermore to the IP address leak, the administrators used a registrar called "Namecheap" for there clearnet domains. Namecheap is based in the United States, known for hosting and domain registry. They are also known for complying with law enforcement and banning domains and processing abuse complaints. Namecheap, doesn't offer any privacy protection to administrators using their service besides hiding the owner of the domain and offering payments in bitcoin. Both KingdomMarket.so and KingdomMarket.live are still up and running as of right now which makes us believe these domains are either ran by the law enforcement or someone else is running them behind the scenes.

Domains and their information derived from who.is:
KingdomMarket.so

KingdomMarket.live


Their infrastructure:
An administrator by the name of Napoleon (separate from KingdomMarket) was able to provide us information about Kingdom's infrastructure. It's believed Kingdom Market to be hosted with VSYS and Impreza host. These hosts state that they promise a privacy focused service by providing offshore locations for their servers. Though Impreza host is a reseller of many other services from many different locations.

Our Speculations:
We believe the servers were hosted in Ukraine as the Ukrainian law enforcement were involved. Additionally, the IRS in United States was also involved which leads us to believe that they used Binance as a cryptocurrency payment.

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