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Quote from: LoyceV on May 10, 2025, 09:04:40 AM
You can tell this is the case here by the fact that not a single US agency is listed in the seized banner.
Maybe that's the reason they couldn't seize the domain names, but somehow managed to get the .onion server.

I'm wondering though: why Germany and the Netherlands? Did they host their servers here? Their company is (was?) registered in Belize, hosting servers in Germany just doesn't make sense.

Yes, it appears so:

Quote from: https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/7/6029813
On April 30, 2025, the Frankfurt am Main Public Prosecutor's Office - Central Office for Combating Internet Crime (ZIT) - and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) seized the German server infrastructure of the crypto swapping service "eXch" and shut down the platform.


AlsoI found this article: https://www.trmlabs.com/resources/blog/exch-remains-active-despite-shutdown-how-the-bybit-hack-linked-exchange-continues-to-enable-laundering-of-csam-funds

From the 2nd of May, where the article claimingclaims that funds linking to CSAM (Child sexual abuse material) were linked to eXch, and even thoughsaying that after the frontendexchange stopped workingfunctioning on the 30th (probably when it was seized), there arewere still transactions being donegoing through the API.
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Quote from: LoyceV on May 10, 2025, 09:04:40 AM
You can tell this is the case here by the fact that not a single US agency is listed in the seized banner.

Maybe that's the reason they couldn't seize the domain names, but somehow managed to get the .onion server.

I'm wondering though: why Germany and the Netherlands? Did they host their servers here? Their company is (was?) registered in Belize, hosting servers in Germany just doesn't make sense.
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Yes, it appears so:
Yes it appears so:

Quote from: https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/7/6029813
On April 30, 2025, the Frankfurt am Main Public Prosecutor's Office - Central Office for Combating Internet Crime (ZIT) - and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) seized the German server infrastructure of the crypto swapping service "eXch" and shut down the platform.

I find it strange that OP logged in a day after the servers were seized to edit his original post, but didn't mention anything about the infrastructure being seized on the 30th.
Also found this: https://www.trmlabs.com/resources/blog/exch-remains-active-despite-shutdown-how-the-bybit-hack-linked-exchange-continues-to-enable-laundering-of-csam-funds

From the 2nd of May, where the article claiming that funds linking to CSAM (Child sexual abuse material) were linked to eXch, and even though the frontend stopped working, there are transactions being done through the API.
Original archived Re: eXch - instant exchange BTC / LN / XMR / LTC / ETH / ERC20
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Quote from: LoyceV on May 10, 2025, 09:04:40 AM
You can tell this is the case here by the fact that not a single US agency is listed in the seized banner.
Maybe that's the reason they couldn't seize the domain names, but somehow managed to get the .onion server.

I'm wondering though: why Germany and the Netherlands? Did they host their servers here? Their company is (was?) registered in Belize, hosting servers in Germany just doesn't make sense.
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Yes it appears so:

Quote from: https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/7/6029813
On April 30, 2025, the Frankfurt am Main Public Prosecutor's Office - Central Office for Combating Internet Crime (ZIT) - and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) seized the German server infrastructure of the crypto swapping service "eXch" and shut down the platform.

I find it strange that OP logged in a day after the servers were seized to edit his original post, but didn't mention anything about the infrastructure being seized on the 30th.