The largest network of child pornography on the Internet falls due to the tracking of bitcoin | Chronic

At least 338 people were arrested as part of an international campaign to fight child pornography on the Internet, using the bitcoin cryptocurrency tracking system linked to the closed site Welcome to Video, accused of having integrated the largest global network of exchanges of this type. Pornography "Dark Web".

The statement from the US Department of Justice indicates that, as part of the operation, 23 minor victims were rescued and that Internet users were arrested in various parts of the United States, as well as in Spain, Brazil, South Korea and the United Kingdom. Germany, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Ireland and Australia, among others

"Darknet sites that benefit from the sexual exploitation of minors are among the most infamous and reprehensible forms of criminal behavior."says the Deputy Attorney General Brian
Benczkowski.

The network operated via bitcoin cryptocurrency transactions, followed by researchers to determine the location of the "darknet" server and its administrator, located in South Korea, reported the EFE news agency. .

The author of the closed website is a 23-year-old South Korean citizen, Jong Woo Son, and the other 338 people were identified, despite the anonymity provided by Dark Web or Dark Internet, thanks to the traceability of bitcoin cryptocurrency, used by the network in its transactions.

Using advanced blockchain-based traceability techniques generated with cryptocurrency transactions, the US Internal Revenue Service's (IRS-CI) criminal case investigation found the Darknet server used . by the pornographic network, located in Korea.

The raid resulted in the seizure of about 8 terabytes of pornographic videos with minors, which, according to the Justice Department, is one of the major seizures of this type.

The images, which are currently analyzed by the authorities, contain more than 250,000 videos and 45% of them contain new images that have not yet been detected.

The survey – says the DPA – also aims to recover the illicit funds obtained by 24 Internet users from five different countries in cryptographic currencies in order to return them to victims of child exploitation crimes.