In 2013, Ross Ulbricht was hunted down by the FBI while sitting in a San Francisco library. He was arrested for making half a billion dollars running Silk Road, a “dark web” marketplace for buying and ...

Four men have been arrested by the U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA) for drug offenses in connection with their involvement in Silk Road, an Internet underground marketplace for drugs and other ...

THE alleged mastermind of the Silk Road internet black market tried to have a former employee tortured, then killed, investigators say. A hidden website operated by the San Francisco man, using an ...

The former U.S. agent who led the investigation of the illegal Silk Road Internet drug emporium admitted while pleading guilty to charges he pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars in digital ...

When a dramatic feature film gets made out of an investigative magazine article, there’s usually some conventional heroic hook to it (the fight against corporate malfeasance, a think-different athlete ...

Inspired by larger-than-life actual events, this riveting crime thriller follows the rise and fall of Silk Road, the infamous darknet site that sent a seismic shock through the World Wide Web. Young, ...

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three men were indicted in the United States on Friday in connection with Silk Road, the Internet black-market bazaar in which illegal drugs like heroin and cocaine can be ...