Pierluigi Paganini June 01, 2020

Earlier this year a hacker breached Daniel’s Hosting, the largest free web hosting provider for dark web hidden services and now leaked its DB.

A threat actor has leaked the database of Daniel’s Hosting (DH), the largest free web hosting provider for dark web hidden services.

The hacker has stolen the data in March when he breached the hosting provider, almost 7,600 dark web portals have been taken offline following the security breach.

Daniel Winzen, a German software developer that operated the service, revealed that attackers accessed the backend of the hosting provider and deleted all the databases of the websites hosted by Daniel’s Hosting.

Winzen definitively shut down the service on March 26.

Today ZDNet reported that a hacker that goes online with the moniker ‘KingNull’ uploaded a copy of Daniel’s Hosting database on a file-hosting site.

“According to a cursory analysis of today’s data dump, the leaked data includes 3,671 email addresses, 7,205 account passwords, and 8,580 private keys for .onion (dark web) domains.” reported ZDNet.

Threat intelligence firm Under the Breach that analyzed the leaked database told ZDNet that the archive includes sensitive information on the owners and users of thousands of darknet sites. IP addresses of administrators and users were not included in the archive.

The database could allow law enforcement agencies to deanonymize administrators of dark web services that were involved in illegal activities.

Unfortunately, the leak could put in danger activists and dissidents that use the darknets to avoid the censorship applied by regimes.

In November 2018, Daniel’s Hosting provider was victims of another incident, attackers hacked the service and deleted 6,500+ sites.

ZDNet revealed that Winzen plans to launch again the hosting service in several months.

Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – dark web, hacking)

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