On March 26, after the two weeks of the breach, DN shut down the services for the good urging users to move their site to the new dark web hosting providers. It was mentioned that around 7,600 websites which are an approx third of all dark web portals went down.

DATA LEAKED

A hacker called him KingNull uploaded the file of DH’s stolen database on a file-hosting portal.

According to the cursory analysis of the total overall data dump, the leaked data includes 3,671 e-mail addresses and 8,580 private keys, and 7,205 account passwords for the .onion (dark web) domains.

The main point they leaked the database which has sensitive information on the owner and several users that have darknet domains.

The leaked data can be used to tie the user of leaked email which has a certain dark web portal.

The information which is leaked may help to track the specific user and helps the government to take legal action if anyone is taking part in illegal activities on these darknet users.

That is an important point for the user of the dark web portal “ if the site owner moves their dark web portals to the other hosting provider and they don’t change the passwords then it may be affected again”. If the hacker has access to the new accounts because they cracked the DH hashed password previously that may help them again to take over.

Overall the threats intelligence firms and law enforcement team are finding the clues but the hacker has left no clues. The IP address is only the last option but they don’t find it in dumped data.

HACKED DH SECOND TIME AGAIN

In March 2020, it was the second time DH hacked and suffered the data breach. The first incident happened in November 2018 where the site backend database server was breached and deleted all sites. Around 6,500 sites were wiped at that time and no data was ever leaked.

This was not only the story that happened with DH hosting in the year 2017 some other hacker collective tool down freedom Hosting when they discovered hosting provider was sheltering child abuse portals.

The DH hosting still planned to launch the services but this time they made some more improvements and that was the main priority.

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