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View this email in your browser   |  Manage newsletter subscriptions  Hi! I'm Andy Greenberg, a senior writer for WIRED who covers hackers, cybersecurity and cybercrime. Thanks for signing up to this newsletter, which will offer some behind-the-scenes notes, photos, and commentary from my reporting on the investigation and takedown of AlphaBay, the biggest dark web bust of all time.   I've been reporting on this story, which is excerpted from my book Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, for more than half a decade. The result is perhaps the most twisty and dramatic detective tale I've ever told in my career as a reporter, and this newsletter will guide you through WIRED's serialized version of that narrative over the next 6 weeks.   Hope you enjoy it, and see you in your inbox soon! —Andy Find me on Twitter @a_greenberg and on Mastodon @agreenberg@infosec.exchange. More Stories by Andy Greenberg How Bitcoin Tracers Took Down the Web's Biggest Child Abuse Site They thought their payments were untraceable. They couldn't have been more wrong. The untold story of the case that shredded the myth of Bitcoin's anonymity. The Cold War Over Hacking McDonald's Ice Cream Machines Secret codes. Legal threats. Betrayal. How one couple built a device to fix McDonald's notoriously broken soft-serve machines—and how the fast-food giant froze them out. The Confessions of the Hacker Who Saved the Internet At 22, Marcus Hutchins put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. This is his untold story. GET WIRED Get WIRED for just $29.99 $5. Includes the print edition plus editor in chief Gideon Lichfield's column, System Update. Subscribe now. Have questions or comments? Reply to this email.   This email was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our email address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe or Manage your newsletter subscriptions   Copyright © Condé Nast 2023. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.