Hackers have leaked the user database of a Tor web host popular with child pornographers
Feb05
Two days ago, a hacker group affiliated with Anonymous broke into the servers of Freedom Hosting II — a popular underground web host that, according to The Verge, contained one-fifth of the dark web — and shut it down. Predictably, the hackers weren’t content with replacing 10,613 websites with a page that said “Hello, Freedom Hosting II, you have been hacked.” They also copied the hosting service’s database, which they have since released publicly. According to Troy Hunt, who runs the popular service Have I Been Pwned?, the data dump includes the email details of nearly 381,000 users. Given that…
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