dark web Anonymous Takes Down 20% of the Dark Web After Finding Child Porn

[WALLONN7]

The Anonymous hacker claims over half the files on the hosting service were illegal and featured children

 

 

The Dark Web is having a tough weekend after a hacker group affiliated with Anonymous managed to break into the servers of Freedom Hosting II in order to take down over 10,000 websites.

Visitors of any of the sites hosted by the Freedom Hosting II service were greeted by a chilling message. “Hello, Freedom Hosting II, you have been hacked.”

Freedom Hosting II is one of the largest hosting services for underground websites, holding some 15 to 20 percent of all sites on the Dark Web, as per estimates of researcher Sarah Jamie Lewis. All these websites are .onion and can, therefore, be accessed via the Tor browser.

Hackers stole the database of Freedom Hosting II, defaced all the hosted websites and demanded a ransom for the return of the data. Some of the stolen data has already been dumped on another site hosted on the Tor network, the researcher behind Have I Been Pwned tweeted. The collection of data includes the email details of over 380,000 users.

The reasons behind the hack

The reason why Anonymous targeted this hosting service and its website is that they have zero tolerance to child pornography, as they explain in a message posted on the hacked sites. “Moreover you host many scam sites, some of which are evidently run by yourself to cover hosting expenses,” they add.

The notice mentions that all files have been copied and the database has been dumped, amassing to 74GB of files and 2.3GB of the database. “Up to January 31st you were hosting 10,613 sites. Private keys are included in the dump,” the message reads.

Anonymous hackers mention that over half of the files hosted on Freedom Hosting II servers were related to child pornography, which is, obviously illegal. It has become a common occurrence for dark web sites to host such vile content, something that law enforcement is aware of and has been trying to combat.

Loads of data for the authorities

The Anonymous hacker responsible for the takedown explained to Motherboard that this was actually his first hack ever and taking down the hosting provider wasn’t his intention in the first place. Upon stumbling over the massive amounts of child pornography on its servers, he decided to take everything down.

The leaked data contains plain text emails, usernames and hashed passwords. If we soon hear about law enforcement intervening and arresting loads of people we should not be too surprised since they surely will have plenty of usage for all this data.
 

Source

[vitorio]

20 minutes ago, WALLONN7 said:

The Anonymous hacker claims over half the files on the hosting service were illegal and featured children

 

 

The Dark Web is having a tough weekend after a hacker group affiliated with Anonymous managed to break into the servers of Freedom Hosting II in order to take down over 10,000 websites.

Visitors of any of the sites hosted by the Freedom Hosting II service were greeted by a chilling message. “Hello, Freedom Hosting II, you have been hacked.”

Freedom Hosting II is one of the largest hosting services for underground websites, holding some 15 to 20 percent of all sites on the Dark Web, as per estimates of researcher Sarah Jamie Lewis. All these websites are .onion and can, therefore, be accessed via the Tor browser.

Hackers stole the database of Freedom Hosting II, defaced all the hosted websites and demanded a ransom for the return of the data. Some of the stolen data has already been dumped on another site hosted on the Tor network, the researcher behind Have I Been Pwned tweeted. The collection of data includes the email details of over 380,000 users.

The reasons behind the hack

The reason why Anonymous targeted this hosting service and its website is that they have zero tolerance to child pornography, as they explain in a message posted on the hacked sites. “Moreover you host many scam sites, some of which are evidently run by yourself to cover hosting expenses,” they add.

The notice mentions that all files have been copied and the database has been dumped, amassing to 74GB of files and 2.3GB of the database. “Up to January 31st you were hosting 10,613 sites. Private keys are included in the dump,” the message reads.

Anonymous hackers mention that over half of the files hosted on Freedom Hosting II servers were related to child pornography, which is, obviously illegal. It has become a common occurrence for dark web sites to host such vile content, something that law enforcement is aware of and has been trying to combat.

Loads of data for the authorities

The Anonymous hacker responsible for the takedown explained to Motherboard that this was actually his first hack ever and taking down the hosting provider wasn’t his intention in the first place. Upon stumbling over the massive amounts of child pornography on its servers, he decided to take everything down.

The leaked data contains plain text emails, usernames and hashed passwords. If we soon hear about law enforcement intervening and arresting loads of people we should not be too surprised since they surely will have plenty of usage for all this data.
 

Source

Anonymous should submit this information to federal agencies. That is the right thing to do.

[WALLONN7]

39 minutes ago, WALLONN7 said:

The leaked data contains plain text emails, usernames and hashed passwords. If we soon hear about law enforcement intervening and arresting loads of people we should not be too surprised since they surely will have plenty of usage for all this data.

 

20 minutes ago, vitorio said:

Anonymous should submit this information to federal agencies. That is the right thing to do.

 

Already done...

[steven36]

What good does this do? maybe the FBI was fixing  too put these sickos in jail  for years and he messed up there investigation and  it was  one hacker who done  it, was a online vigilante.. it was no group and he claims to be linked to Anonymous ...but the problem with this anyone could make this claim .He took down the web host and the pedos go free to open it back up on the same host or a different one and now maybe the police dont know were they are?   Hindering a Federal investigation  is a crime.

Talking to the Hacker Who Took Down a Fifth of the Dark Web

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/talking-to-the-hacker-who-took-down-a-fifth-of-the-dark-web

 

[WALLONN7]

And how about we read it more thoroughly before we start shouting this or that...

[steven36]

I read about it yesterday many in the comments they was talking about  many claiming to be part of Anonymous are fakes many are undercover or work for the law  . Taking down the Darkweb  sounds like something the CIA  or some other government hackers would do, The darkweb is used for evil but many depend on it too access the internet in oppressed countries  and there government would love too see it shut down . So shutting down the biggest Web host  on Tor is helping the countries who censor the internet.

 

Lets shut down the darkweb and blame it on Anonymous and child porn and  witch everyone knows exited on the darkweb and still does  for decades. It would take a idot  to not know it was there even if they never been on it in there life , if they read the news . It would be a  Good plain by some government to cover there tracks.

[knowledge-Spammer]

good for them  we did take down a site with cp on it longtime ago zwgay.com

[steven36]

They didn't put these pedos in jail and there free to prey on kids  still  ..This stuff existed long before the internet  and if you scare these people they just go into hiding  . No hacker siting behind a keyboard can do the polices job  because to convict someone they must be proven guilty in court of law without a shadow of doubt .. A real vigilante that's not a net nanny would go to there house and shoot them .

[KP333]

Pity it wasn't lot more anything that involves kids or rape etc should be taking down once and for all but we all know that will not happen 1 goes down another 1 or 2 pop up  , anyway well done Anonymous grp

[knowledge-Spammer]

3 minutes ago, steven36 said:

They didn't put these pedos in jail and there free to prey on kids  still  ..This stuff existed long before the internet  and if you scare these people they just go into hiding  . No hacker siting behind a keyboard can do the polices job  because to convict someone they must be proven guilty in court of law without a shadow of doubt .. A real vigilante that's not a net nanny would go to there house and shoot them .

not in russia we not need court 

but i understand what u mean

[steven36]

1 minute ago, knowledge said:

not in russia we not need court 

but i understand what u mean

In Russia they most likely would went too there house and executed them  or by the time the government got done with them they would wish they was dead you never read about nothing like this happening like this there because laws there are very harsh on sex offenders .

[knowledge-Spammer]

5 minutes ago, steven36 said:

In Russia they most likely would went too there house and executed them  or by the time the government got done with them they would wish they was dead you never read about nothing like this happening like this there because laws there are very harsh on sex offenders .

i see days ago usa say this >Top US spy chief says it's possible Russia could plant child porn on American computers<

it show how mad the usa spy is

 

[steven36]

42 minutes ago, knowledge said:

i see days ago usa say this >Top US spy chief says it's possible Russia could plant child porn on American computers<

it show how mad the usa spy is

 

This was not Anonymous  it was just some greedy hacker  trying too make money  over 5,000 legitimate tor sites are being held hostage.

 

Quote

That's not justice (vigilante or otherwise), that's just greed  Asking for bitcoin to release them why involve money

 

 

 

Quote

It doesn't mean illegitimate either.

For example, sites to reach people in places where there is state sponsored censorship. Sure it's not legitimate as far as the country do the censorship is concerned but people/governments outside that country it may be considered defensible.

Security researchers (white hat and pen testers) often have onion sites to provide some street cred.

If you want to blog but want to stay anonymous for personal reasons.

Although with several of those I see no reason not to use a legitimate web host or VPS providers.

 

 

That would be like shunting down  a web server on the clear net because they host warez and  killing a 5th of the clear net . If people are so acceptable too  censorship maybe next it will some site you vist and its took offline because a few bad apples use it for evil. 

 

How would you like it if you lived somewhere you needed  it too talk you're family and because this person wants a ransom paid  and you cant ? Most of us on the clearnet dont realize how valuable the darknet is too places that have censorship it could be a matter of life or death.

 

HE shut down 5000 sites to shut 10 CP sites down?

 

[steven36]

3 hours ago, knowledge said:

 

Anyway from what i been reading on the internet  it was less to do with  Anonymous and more too do with part of a larger sting  with California child trafficking last week that since Anonymous became the name government agents decided to start using.

 

Quote

 

California police arrest 474, rescue 28 sexually exploited children during statewide human trafficking sting

 

 

California law enforcement officials on Tuesday announced they arrested hundreds of people and rescued dozens of sexually exploited children and adults during a statewide sting operation taking aim at human trafficking.

In total, 474 arrests were made — including 142 men hit with solicitation charges and 36 men on suspicion of pimping — during the three-day operation conducted by 30 different law enforcement agencies across the state, according to a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department news release.

Additionally, 28 commercially and sexually exploited children and 27 adult victims were saved by the sting, authorities said.

“You are worthy of more. And we will work tirelessly with our partners ... to provide you services and help you rebuild your life,” Sheriff Jim McDonnell vowed to victims during a news conference.

6 child sex-trafficking victims rescued, 2 arrested in Colo.

 

 

The operation, called “Reclaim and Rebuild,” sought to not only identify and arrest those involved in human trafficking, but also targeted the customers with hope of cutting down on future incidents.

 

“Police agencies and other trafficking task forces throughout our state joined in the enforcement operation to send the clear message that California law enforcement shares a unified mandate: Human trafficking must not be tolerated in our state,” the press release reads.

The children rescued during the operation were being cared for by family service agencies across California.

The Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking, as well as the Saving Innocence Organization, were also organizing efforts to assist victims, KTLA reported.

 

 

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2017/02/01/sheriff-474-arrested-in-statewide-human-trafficking-stings/

 

 

There so many fake anons on the internet  it killed any credibility they had  on YouTube  there is one group who claims to be anons that say what bad job Trump is doing and another group that claims too be anons say Trump is great  so someone is fake if  not both groups.

 

From what I read about this so called Anon that hacked the darknet  it was his 1st hack ever if he was a real Anon it would not  be his 1st hack. Also he hacked based  on someone else's research  a security researcher a white hat..   this sounds like the police  because a real hacker would of  found his own proof  

 

.Another thing they are far worse people on the darkweb than pedos if you fool around and they get you're real ip  because you dont what you're doing they will hunt you down and kill you ..I read horror stories about people who ran into these satanic people on there and they quit hacking and never went back .

 

There are also Devil worshipers on there that rather kill you than look at you and if you are a noob and hack into there site some of them are hackers too and  you're in bad  trouble . I would never fool around on there after reading this  it spooked me because my country  do not censer me from visiting sites.i have no need. Its full of evil  its were all the bad people go not just pedos but not everyone on there is evil some have good reasons for using it so if you do go on there its best too not hunt for these dark places let the cops handle it.

 

Dark Web, Deep Web & Tor the Devil's Internet World.

https://moviepilot.com/posts/3322864

 

 

[radeonxt]

what steven is trying to say is maybe the feds are doing a sting operation and the hacker/s ruined their operation. something along those lines.

the thing is, only the feds will know who most of these scums are and we won't know who they are in our areas because they pretend to be normal in public.

this way, we get to know who these scums are and let the whole world know to avoid these scums.

[shamu726]

[namek]

PEDOS are just sick in the head and they need treatment (if there is one). Those who cannot control their urges are also scums....