Just ii days ago, a hacker grouping affiliated alongside Anonymous broke into the servers of Freedom Hosting II in addition to took downwards to a greater extent than than 10,000 Tor-based .onion nighttime websites alongside an alarming annunciation to its visitors, which said:
"Hello, Freedom Hosting II, yous direct keep been hacked."
Freedom Hosting II is the unmarried largest host of hush-hush websites accessible solely through Tor anonymising browser that hosts somewhere betwixt fifteen in addition to xx pct of all sites on the Dark Web, anonymity in addition to privacy researcher Sarah Jamie Lewis estimated.
Besides defacing all Dark Web sites hosted on Freedom Hosting II alongside the same message in addition to stealing its database, the hackers also demanded a ransom for 0.1 Bitcoin (just over $100) to render the compromised information to the hosting service.
Now, it has been reported that the stolen database from Freedom Hosting II has publicly been released online to a site hosted on the Tor network, which includes the electronic mail details of nearly 381,000 users, 'Have I Been Pwned' tweeted.
According to the Anonymous hackers, to a greater extent than than fifty pct of all files hosted on Freedom Hosting II servers were related to shaver pornography.
Those illegal websites were using gigabytes of information when Freedom Hosting II officially allows no to a greater extent than than 256MB per site, the Anonymous hacker claimed.
In add-on to nighttime sites user details, the information dump also contains backups of website database, nigh of which are based on popular, free, opened upwardly beginning content administration systems in addition to forums similar WordPress in addition to PHPBB.
In an interview alongside Motherboard, an Anonymous hacker who claimed responsibleness for the hack said this was his kickoff hack ever, in addition to he never intended to direct keep downwards the hosting provider.
But when he allegedly discovered several large shaver pornography websites using to a greater extent than than Freedom Hosting II's stated allowance, he decided to direct keep downwards the service. The hacker claimed to direct keep downloaded 74GB of files in addition to a users database dump of 2.3GB.
Lewis has been analyzing the leaked information in addition to reported that the database contains Dark Web users' numerous evidently text emails, usernames, in addition to hashed passwords from forum websites hosted past times Freedom Hosting II.
While it's bad intelligence for users who joined i of those forums providing their genuine personal details, constabulary enforcement would travel happy, equally inward a carve upwardly case, the FBI used location-tracking malware to infiltrate Dark Web porn sites in addition to rails private users.
