Every time something like this happens, lots of people shout that the sky is falling and Tor is "dead."
Thank you for putting forward a reasonable hypothesis amid the FUD.
That being said, I doubt he was a developer for 399 other sites, thats quite a few. I think a "watering hole" style attack is likely here, but I think there must be a part of the story that hasn't been revealed; perhaps there was a federation of .onion marketplaces that Benthall was a part of.
Thank you for putting forward a reasonable hypothesis amid the FUD.
That being said, I doubt he was a developer for 399 other sites, thats quite a few. I think a "watering hole" style attack is likely here, but I think there must be a part of the story that hasn't been revealed; perhaps there was a federation of .onion marketplaces that Benthall was a part of.