Attorneys for Ross Ulbricht, the man convicted of running the Silk Road online drug marketplace under the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts" say they've discovered evidence that someone logged into the Dread Pirate Roberts account on the Silk Road forums six weeks after Ulbricht was arrested. Ulbricht was in federal custody at the time.
If this piece of evidence is authentic, the logical conclusion is that someone else had access to the account that was said to belong to the mastermind of the massive Dark Web drug bazaar. Given the login occurred after the principal arrest in the Silk Road investigation, it may also indicate that whoever did it was someone with a law enforcement background, had access to the investigation, or was "another" Dread Pirate Roberts.
I think we already knew this. The last login date appeared under the silk road forums username and DPR's changed publicly after Ross had been arrested.
Folks always theorized that more than one admin could access the DPR forum account for making announcements if the real DPR was sick, or traveling, or whatever. The SR users were like rabid dogs about downtimes, demanding instantaneous info after any hiccup.
Some also theorized that the post-arrest login was executed intentionally in order to create just this type of doubt in the courts.