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In July 2015 the website was down for 24 hours at the same time as cyber crime forum [[Darkode]] was seized by the FBI and various members arrested in '[[Operation Shrouded Horizon]]'.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Cox|first1=Joseph|title=The Mysterious Disappearance, and Reappearance, of a Dark Web Hacker Market|url=http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-mysterious-disappearance-and-reappearance-of-a-dark-web-hacker-market|accessdate=31 July 2015|date=29 July 2015}}</ref> On 13 August in 2015 the site went offline for unknown reasons.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dead Markets|url=https://www.deepdotweb.com/marketplace-directory/categories/dead-scam|accessdate=13 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150812105034/https://www.deepdotweb.com/marketplace-directory/categories/dead-scam|archive-date=12 August 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=DarkNet Stats|url=https://dnstats.net/market/TheRealDeal|accessdate=13 September 2015}}</ref> On December 1 it announced its reopening on [[DeepDotWeb]].<ref>{{cite news|title=TheRealDeal: This Long-Dead Market Was Just Relaunched!|url=https://www.deepdotweb.com/2015/12/01/therealdeal-this-dead-market-was-just-relaunched/|accessdate=3 December 2015|publisher=[[DeepDotWeb]]|date=1 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208163642/https://www.deepdotweb.com/2015/12/01/therealdeal-this-dead-market-was-just-relaunched/|archive-date=8 December 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Real Deal was shut down in November 2016.<ref>http://www.itnewsafrica.com/2017/08/cybercrime-finds-a-way-despite-dark-web-shutdowns/ [https://archive.today/20170901031647/http://www.itnewsafrica.com/2017/08/cybercrime-finds-a-way-despite-dark-web-shutdowns/ archive]</ref>
In 2020, cybersecurity author Vinny Troia provided an analysis of the marketplace's MySQL database, which revealed two of the site's three admins to be members of [[The Dark Overlord (hackers)|The Dark Overlord]] hacking group.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Troia |first1=Vinny |title=Hunting Cyber Criminals |date=January 2020 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1-119-54099-1 |pages=440–443 |access-date=23 December 2020|url=https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Hunting+Cyber+Criminals%3A+A+Hacker%27s+Guide+to+Online+Intelligence+Gathering+Tools+and+Techniques-p-9781119540991}}</ref>
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