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Child Sexual Abuse Site With 400,000 Users Shut Down by a Multinational Task Force
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An international task force has shut down a large-scale dark web child sexual abuse platform, along with several similarly aligned dark web chat sites. According to an announcement from Germany’s Central Office for Combating Internet Crime (ZIT), “Boystown” had 400,000 registered users and was “one of Europe’s most prolific child sexual abuse platforms on the dark web.” Four suspects, all German nationals, have been identified in connection with the site.
Online Child Abuse Platform with 400k Users Taken Down
A website through which more than 400,000 users accessed child sexual abuse material (CSAM) has been taken down in an international operation led by German police.
The Boystown site had existed on the Darknet since at least June 2019 and had users all over the world. After creating an account, users could download videos and images depicting the sexual abuse of children, exchange content of this nature with one another, and also chat together via voice channels. Among the images and video recordings shared were also recordings of the most severe sexual abuse of young children, German prosecutors said on Monday.
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