DarkMarket was an English-speaking internet cybercrime forum run undercover by the FBI in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The web site allowed buyers and sellers of stolen identities and credit card data to meet and conduct criminal enterprise in an entrepreneurial, peer-reviewed environment.^[1] It had 2,500 users at its peak, according to the FBI.^[2] The site was run by a seven-agent cybercrime unit based at the National Cyber Forensics Training Alliance in Pittsburgh, and targeted a criminal community based partly in Britain.^[3]

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• Computer crime
• List of criminal organizations

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