When and why did TheRealDeal close?

DeepDotWeb lists them as closed for unknown reasons and I can't get on the site. What happened there?


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[6 Points] Trappy_Pandora:

Cops arrested several staff. Admin seemed fine though.


[3 Points] thedarkknet:

As trappy said basically what happened was that some staff got arrested as part of Operation Shrouded Horizon, as they were big members of the Darkode forum, which was the primary target of the LE operation. The admin of darkode was a man named Ping who was also an admin on TRD, it was claimed after his arrest for trying to steal a card reader from a gas station that he was simply a forum mod on TRD, this isn't true he was an admin who even wrote TRDs faq


[2 Points] auto587643:

LE got the site staff as part of Operation Shrouded Horizon. They were big, active members on the Darkode forum, which was LE's big target. When they got nabbed, there wasn't anybody really left to keep the site going.


[1 Points] TheGateKeepah:

The search bar, homie. Utilize it.