Someone claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous compromised a
private web hosting service last week, taking down more than 10,000
sites on the highly encrypted "dark web," security researchers said.
The hacker or hackers broke into the hidden web
hosting service Freedom Hosting II, claiming to have harvested all of
the sites' files and its database, totaling almost 80 gigabytes of
material, they said in a message appearing on the screens of users
trying to access the sites.
They said more than half of the information they
obtained was child pornography, even though the service promotes itself
as having a "zero tolerance policy" to such material.
Other materials in the exposed data include
numerous references to botnets — automated computer networks used to
launch distributed denial of service (or DDoS) attacks, spew out spam or
steal data — email addresses, usernames and passwords from dark web
sites.
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