Looks like there's either a snake in his operation or he pissed off the wrong group of hackers :\
From Profile:
Public statement from the hackers. AlpraKing/XanaxBaron were targeted hacks. There is not a vulnerability in Dream Market that we exploited and we are not affiliated with the admins of this site. We knew AK/XB's real life identity so we targeted him. That is how we came to compromise him and his "business." He is done.
AlpraKing/XanaxBaron are REDACTED
Here is his LAUGHABLE bitcoin laundering site. REDACTED
Find his LinkedIn profile, too. It is a joke. He's not a world-renowned expert in anything other than being a CLOWN.
OPSEC FAIL OPSEC FAIL
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As a casual lurker who sorta hates the guy because I think he's barred out and ruined a ton of teenagers lives who didn't understand what they were doing, two things shock me about this.
First - knowing nothing more than the open fact he was arrested before for pressing pills, my simpleton ass was able to successfully find his real name and info in under 10 minutes about a year ago. Some comment mentioned his previous arrest and the area it was in. Googling two obvious queries was all it took to find him and his blog.
Second, and WAY more important IMHO: If a random DNM reader like me was able to find Q's real name in minutes a year ago, why the fuck is he still operating? Private pharma likely has tens of millions at their disposal to hunt him down privately, and the US government probably knew who he was 15 seconds after registering as "quantik" on whatever market he first used.
The fact that he's free means one of the following:
there is a bigger case that for the time being requires him as an active informant, likely biker related or organized crime
There are known deaths from his product, a drug epidemic stemming from his operation by itself, and his identity has been one Google query away from even my Grandma's IE browser.
What the fuck am I missing here? I saw an unrelated thread 6-7 months ago that mentioned his real name and had "that' picture of him in it, on a topic that wasn't rule breaking or remotely related to him or xanax. That post got scrubbed like 60s later, and I'm sure I wasn't the only one who caught it and assumed it had to confirm my original query as accurate. Why else would mods insta-delete a random link to a bitcoin blog in a thread about bitcoin?
Enjoy federal prison man, all of us non-bartards really appreciate you turning like 2% of the US high school/college population in to fucking car wrecking babbling retards.