Teen arrested over hundreds of bomb threats allegedly sold them for $30 on the dark web

An Israeli teenager named Michael Kadar stands accused of sending bomb threats to 245 Jewish Community Centers and schools across the United States. That number — 245 — seems stunningly high, and that might be because he had a list of clients who paid him to make the threats.

What we know from newly unsealed court documents is that Kadar is accused of soliciting his services on AlphaBay, a dark web marketplace where buyers and sellers exchange goods and services that, shall we say, you won’t find on eBay. 

The teenager would allegedly email a threat to a school for just 30 bucks, half the price of a newly released video game. He’d add $15 to the tab if his client wanted Kadar to frame someone, though the teenager warned potential clients that his “experience” told him that “putting someones name in the emailed threat will reduce the chance of the threat being successful.” Read more…

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