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Popular Dark Web Hosting Provider Got Hacked, 6,500 Sites Down (zdnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the meanwhile-on-the-dark-web dept.

Daniel's Hosting, one of the largest providers of Dark Web hosting services, was hacked this week and taken offline, ZDNet reports. From a report: The hack took place on Thursday, November 15, according to Daniel Winzen, the software developer behind the hosting service. "As per my analysis it seems someone got access to the database and deleted all accounts," he said in a message posted on the DH portal today. Winzen said the server's root account was also deleted, and that all 6,500+ Dark Web services hosted on the platform are now gone. "Unfortunately, all data is lost and per design, there are no backups," Winzen told ZDNet in an email today. "I will bring my hosting back up once the vulnerability has been identified and fixed."

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  1. No backups?! by fbobraga · · Score: 4, Informative

    all data is lost and per design, there are no backups Wow

    1. Re:No backups?! by Tuidjy · · Score: 4, Insightful

      By design.

      I find it quite surprising, as well. It's easier to secure backups than it is to secure an Internet facing server... as the host learned, incidentally.

      I can't trust someone to make backups and store them safely, I probably would not I trust him host my server.

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      No good deed goes unpunished...
    2. Re:No backups?! by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I find it quite surprising, as well

      You should not be surprised. This is the dark web. If backups are made, they can be subpoenaed.

      I can't trust someone to make backups and store them safely, I probably would not I trust him host my server.

      You are missing the point. His customers are looking for someone they can trust to NOT make backups.

      Anyway, good luck to Daniel and his customers. As long as we have overreaching governments grasping for power, we need the anonymity and secrecy of the dark web. Hopefully someday their activities can be done openly.

    3. Re:No backups?! by bob4u2c · · Score: 5, Funny

      Just contact the CIA, I'm sure they have a few backups.

    4. Re:No backups?! by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Because the government has no business knowing if children are being sold for child porn

      Pedophilia is a medical condition as well as a crime. By over-criminalizing it, we push it into the shadows, make it harder to treat and increase the number of victims. In Japan, pedophiles can buy childlike sex dolls. There is strong evidence that these dolls provide a satisfactory outlet for many pedophiles, and reduces their desire to prey on real children. These dolls are illegal in America, and can only be ordered on the dark web. Do you think that makes sense?

      ... or if murders are being set up.

      Most of the murders arranged on the dark web are between drug gangs. This is a direct result of their activities being illegal, and thus very profitable but with no access to legal processes of dispute resolution.

      Alcohol prohibition in the 1920s also led to plenty of murders. The solution was fewer restrictions on what citizens could do, not more.

      I'm sure people would love to see children or women being raped in the open.

      Because that is what always happens when governments reduce censorship?

      Reductio ad absurdum

  2. Now we know ... by PPH · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... where Bobby Tables went to work after graduating.

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    Have gnu, will travel.
  3. The dark web by fredrated · · Score: 4, Funny

    went dark. Oh the irony.