Operation Pacifier is or was a large scale hacking campaigning from the launched in 2015 investigating criminal activity on the . It was the largest such operation since Operation Torpedo.

Malware known to as (NITs) were used to discover the real IP addresses of users from a seized website called .

The international nature of the operation raised a number of legal questions about the FBI’s international jurisdiction and is the subject of ongoing legal and journalistic investigations.

External links

• Law Enforcement Are Hacking the Planet – How the FBI and local cops are hacking computers outside of their jurisdiction.

Source

http://wikipedia.org/

See Also on BitcoinWiki

• Extauri
• FortFC
• Six Network
• Virtual currency law in the United States
• Brikbit