"Boystown", the world's largest platform for exchanging child pornography content, has been dismantled. The network had about 40 thousand subscribers from all over the world.
Don't store avocado like this: it's dangerous400 thousand: this is the number of subscribers to the largest international platform for the exchange of child pornography. It is a gigantic number that is frightening and leaves us bewildered. The network on the Darknet, active since June 2019, was dismantled in these days by the German federal anti-crime. Boystown, as the network just in question was called, allowed users to share images and videos of minors, also containing scenes of sexual abuse of very young children. After the main suspects were arrested, the platform was finally closed.
During the raids carried out in Germany, three men, aged between 40 and 64, ended up in handcuffs, while a 54-year-old, with German citizenship, was arrested in Paraguay and will be extradited to Germany, on the basis of an arrest warrant. international issued by your country of origin. In the course of the investigation, seven houses in Northern Germany, Bavaria and Hamburg were also searched.
How the Boystown Network worked
The Boystown network had 400 followers from all over the world. On the platform, users could exchange content, search for them by category and chat with each other. According to what was discovered by the investigators, one of the most active members - a 64-year-old from Hamburg for whom the arrest was triggered - would have shared over 3.500 posts, as three people explained to other users how to navigate safely without being caught by law enforcement.
Fortunately, however, the German Anti-Crime - thanks to the collaboration with the police forces of Sweden, the United States, Australia and Canada - managed to unmask the huge network of pedophiles, which acted in the shadows for about two years. This terrifying story reminds us of the importance of protecting minors online, too often exposed to risks on social networks such as Facebook and TikTok ...
Fonte: Central office for combating cybercrime
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