Empire Market is the biggest darknet market for the sale of illegal goods like drugs, counterfeit items, databases, money, and hacking services
- Site Name: Empire Market
- Founded: February 1, 2018
- Number of users: 1 million users
- Typical Users: Interested in illegal goods like drugs, counterfeit money and other items and hacking services.
With over a million dollars in business volume each week, it’s no wonder that cybercriminals flock to Empire Market to sell their illegal goods. Even though it’s a relatively new marketplace on the TOR network, Empire Market has grown quickly, with approximately 52.7K products on the site as of April and 4500 vendors.
A Source for a Wide Number of Illegal Goods
Each day there are over 500 new posts on Empire Market, including threads and comments. Payments are made in Bitcoin, Litecoin and Monero cryptocurrencies. To give you a better understanding of the variety of goods sold on Empire Market, here is a screenshot of the types of categories sold: