FBI hacked and operated an Irish web hosting service

Stefan Mileschin · 21st September 2021, 08:49

Using a flaw in Firefox and Tor

An Irish man who ran a cheap dark web hosting service has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for turning a blind eye to customers hosting child sex abuse material.

While there are few who will mourn the fate of Eric Eoin Marques, 36, from Dublin, who operated the Freedom Hosting service between July 2008 and July 2013, there are a few questions about the way he was bought down.

The FBI found and exploited a security hole in Firefox to identify users of the Tor Browser Bundle. Using that they found that the hosting service contained over 200 child exploitation websites that housed millions of images of child exploitation material.

More than 1.97 million of these images or videos were not previously known by law enforcement.

https://fudzilla.com/news/53561-fbi-...osting-service

21st September 2021, 08:49	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 153,541	FBI hacked and operated an Irish web hosting service Using a flaw in Firefox and Tor An Irish man who ran a cheap dark web hosting service has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for turning a blind eye to customers hosting child sex abuse material. While there are few who will mourn the fate of Eric Eoin Marques, 36, from Dublin, who operated the Freedom Hosting service between July 2008 and July 2013, there are a few questions about the way he was bought down. The FBI found and exploited a security hole in Firefox to identify users of the Tor Browser Bundle. Using that they found that the hosting service contained over 200 child exploitation websites that housed millions of images of child exploitation material. More than 1.97 million of these images or videos were not previously known by law enforcement. https://fudzilla.com/news/53561-fbi-...osting-service

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