British Tor hidden service developer and administrator
Mug shot of Thomas White
Thomas White aka Cthulhu is a British former Tor hidden service developer and administrator.
Activities involved being consulted on a number of Tor security matters such as dark web scams,[1] [2] law enforcement raids[3] and darknet markets .[4]
He has hosted a number of data dumps including those associated with Hacking Team ,[5] Ashley Madison ,[6] and Patreon .[7] [8]
In January 2016 he hosted a release of the files hacked from the Fraternal Order of Police .[9] [10]
Arrest & Silk Road 2.0
In November 2014, White was arrested as the mastermind behind Silk Road 2 . In April 2019, White pleaded guilty to charges including drug trafficking, money laundering, as well as making indecent images of children, and was sentenced to a total of 5 years and 4 months in prison.[11]
Career (other activities)
He had claimed to have worked in a security vetted/cleared role at Enhanced Developed Vetting (eDV) level from August 2013 to December 2016 on his LinkedIn profile. [12]
External links
References
^ Cox, Joseph (14 September 2015). "This .Onion Farmer Is Squatting on 40 Million Dark Web Domains" . Retrieved 29 January 2016 .
^ Cox, Joseph (12 June 2015). "Dark Web Spam Is Stealing People's Bitcoins" . Retrieved 29 January 2016 .
^ Pauli, Darren (22 December 2014). "STAY AWAY: Popular Tor exit relays look raided" . Retrieved 29 January 2016 .
^ Cox, Joseph (22 June 2015). "This Researcher Is Hunting Down IP Addresses of Dark Web Sites" . Retrieved 29 January 2016 .
^ Osbourne, Charlie (7 June 2015). "Hacking Team: We won't 'shrivel up and go away' after cyberattack" . Retrieved 29 January 2016 .
^ Sposito, Sean (8 October 2015). "Why an Internet activist refuses to take down Patreon breach data" . Retrieved 29 January 2016 .
^ Goodin, Dan (2 October 2015). "Gigabytes of user data from hack of Patreon donations site dumped online" . Retrieved 29 January 2016 .
^ Fox-Brewster, Thomas (5 October 2015). "Dark Web Denizen Declines To Ditch Patreon Data Dump" . Retrieved 29 January 2016 .
^ Cox, Joseph (29 January 2016). "US Police Organisation Hacked, Documents Posted Online" . Retrieved 29 January 2016 .
^ Swaine, Jon (29 January 2016). "Hackers post private files of America's biggest police union" . Retrieved 29 January 2016 .
^ Cox, Joseph (12 April 2019). "Silk Road 2 Founder Dread Pirate Roberts 2 Caught, Jailed for 5 Years" . Retrieved 13 April 2019 .
^ Twitter https://twitter.com/deku_shrub/status/1117809803169009664 . Retrieved 14 October 2022 .