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Daniel's Hosting, one of the most popular onion service hosts, is shutting down on March 25. According to an announcement from the owner of the service, a recent hack that resulted in the deletion of all hosting-related databases is to blame for the shutdown.

A Riverside County man was sentenced to 120 months in prison for stealing nine doctors' identities, using their identities to write his own prescriptions, and then selling the filled prescriptions on the darkweb.

Avaris Market has been offline for more than four days at the time of this post. Market administrators are either unable or unwilling to provide a status update. And according to a recent post from an Avaris employee, admins are keeping staff in the dark too.

A 51-year-old from Massachusetts was sentenced to seven years in prison for possession of child pornography. The defendant had downloaded thousands of child abuse images from the darkweb forum Playpen.

Jason Keith Arnold, 46, of Chandler, Arizona, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin and methamphetamine on Dream Market under the accounts “TheSickness” and “SicknessVersion2."

A 55-year-old man from Surry, Maine, was sentenced to two years in federal prison for reselling counterfeit oxycodone pills he had purchased on the darkweb. According to court documents, the man sold hundreds of fake oxycodone pills laced with carfentanil.

Kingdom Market, a very recently created darkweb marketplace, provided the community with a perfect example of a dangerously misconfigured onion service as well as yet another reason to be skeptical about new markets.

A 27-year-old from Hobart, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 50 months in prison for selling a wide variety of drugs on at least six darkweb marketplaces. The darkweb vendor, according to the sentencing judge, had committed a “crime of significant magnitude.”