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# AlphaBay Turns 1—Again: Analyzing the Impact of AlphaBay Market

Flashpoint, August 29, 2022. AlphaBay resurgence: a one-year retrospective on the market DeSnake relaunched on 6 August 2021, four years after the 2017 seizure, and its position in the darknet ecosystem.

**Source type:** Cybersecurity report

**Published:** August 29, 2022

**Research grade:** T2

**Used in entries:** 1

## Bibliographic record

**Publisher:** Flashpoint

**Published:** August 29, 2022

**Source type:** Cybersecurity report

**Research grade:** Source grade T2

**Language:** English

**Official record:** Not an official publication

**Address:** [https://flashpoint.io/blog/alphabay-analyzing-the-impact-of-alphabay-market/](https://flashpoint.io/blog/alphabay-analyzing-the-impact-of-alphabay-market/)

**What it supports:** AlphaBay resurgence: a one-year retrospective on the market DeSnake relaunched on 6 August 2021, four years after the 2017 seizure, and its position in the darknet ecosystem

**Dataset id:** src\_flashpoint\_alphabay\_turns\_1\_again\_2022

## Research notes

- published\_on taken from the page's schema.org datePublished (2022-08-29T15:47:23+00:00); the page was later modified on 2025-07-08.
- The browser tab title is the shorter 'AlphaBay Turns 1: Analyzing the Impact of AlphaBay Market'; the headline recorded here is the on-page H1.

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## Cited by

### Later activity

1 citation

Cited for activity recorded after the takedown.

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[AlphaBay relaunch under DeSnake](https://takedownindex.org/takedowns/alphabay-seizure)

Partial operator continuity, AlphaBay seizure

Later outcome

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