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The National Law Enforcement Museum’s next Witness to History event: DarkMarket & the FBI Agent who Became Master Splyntr will be held at theInternational Spy Museum, on April 8, 2014, at 6:00 pm. The event will focus on how Agent J. Keith Mularski of the FBI’s Cyber Initiative & Resource Fusion Unit creatively masked his true identity and ran the site DarkMarket under the handle Master Splyntr, remaining undetected for two years.
With over 2,500 registered members at its peak, DarkMarket—a one-stop shop for selling stolen personal credit and identity information online—became a hub for underground criminal enterprise. Agent Mularski’s efforts were responsible for preventing millions in financial loss and resulted in 60 arrests worldwide.
At this Witness to History event, hear directly from Mularski about how he learned to log on and think like a crook to catch criminals. Joining Mularski is WIRED Magazine Investigations Editor Kevin Poulsen, an investigative reporter on the cyber crime beat, author of Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion Dollar Cyber Crime Underground, and a former hacker himself.
| Panelists: | J. Keith Mularski, Supervisory Special Agent, FBI Kevin Poulsen, Investigations Editor, WIRED Magazine |
| What: | National Law Enforcement Museum Panel Discussion Series Witness to History: DarkMarket & the FBI Agent who Became Master Splyntr |
| When: | Tuesday, April 8, 2014 Reception at 6:00 pm Program 6:45-8:30 pm |
| Where: | International Spy Museum 800 F Street, NW Washington, DC 20004 Metro Green/Yellow/Red Line to Gallery Place/Chinatown Station |
The Museum’s Witness to History program—generously funded by Target—began in June 2011 with a presentation by former Dallas (TX) Homicide Detective Jim Leavelle. Now in his 90s, Leavelle recounted his experience as the detective assigned to escort Lee Harvey Oswald, the suspect accused of assassinating President John F. Kennedy, on the day Oswald himself was shot and killed. Since the inaugural Witness to History event, seven more have been presented on topics ranging from the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, to serial killers—specifically the case of the Green River Killer. Video recordings and photographs from the events are available to view on our website.
Admission is free and this event is open to the public. Space is limited; registered guests will be seated on a first-come, first-served basis. Register by April 1, 2014.
