Boystown

Boystown (stylized in logo as BOYS TOWN) was a child pornography website run through the Tor network as a hidden service. A high-ranking employee of a German security agency who receives "requests from the German government, from any public authorities, from the Ministry of Defense, from the BKA and anything else to check the security of certain processes" acts under the alias "Captain Sparrow" as an administrator for Boystown and optimizes the programming scripts. Hours after the shutdown, an unknown user posted a dump of Boystown online, as confirmed by the Frankfurt prosecutor's office. STRG_F then had files in the volume of 13.5 TB deleted from filehosters by December 2021. Admin The Antediluvian confirms this that investigators do not have files deleted. BKA said it had "7000 links deleted" last year. Investigators in Germany are only interested in hard drives of the perpetrators. Three successor platforms (with 410 and 846 thousand accounts) with, among others, a common admin in Germany (a 21-year-old from Saxony) were shut down Christmas 2022. Another three suspected administrators were arrested in November and December in Seelze near Hanover, Schleswig-Holstein and Brazil. The BKA has "secured" hundreds of thousands of images. Background As of May 2021, the website was considered one of the largest international darknet platform to host child pornography. The website had 400,000 registered users.