Doxbin

Doxbin was a document sharing and publishing website which invited users to contribute personally identifiable information, or "dox", of any person of interest. It was previously operated on the darknet as a Tor hidden service, by a person known on the internet as nachash. Since its takedown in 2014, nachash has stepped down and relinquished his ownership to a predecessor that used the username, king oren, when interviewed. He told in an interview that he is hosting the Doxbin on public access, referring to World Wide Web, as well as on darknet and Tor hidden service websites, although he would not release the link to either of them, saying, "The people that use the service, know how to find it, that's what keeps it secure and out of the reach of incompetent people using it for malice things".

Doxbin
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Due to the illegal nature of much of the information it published, -such as social security numbers, bank routing information, credit card information, all in plain-text- it was one of many sites seized during Operation Onymous, a multinational police initiative, in November 2014. [1]

History

Doxbin was established to act as a secure, anonymous venue for the publication of dox first established by people by the usernames of nachash, king oren, CGOD, and Phocus. Dox being a term in Internet culture which refers to personally identifiable information about individuals, including social security numbers, street addresses, usernames, emails, and passwords, obtained through a variety of legal and illegal means.[2]

In November 2012, Doxbin's Twitter handle @Doxbin was attributed to an attack on Symantec, coordinated with Anonymous's Operation Vendetta.[3]

It first attracted attention in March 2014 when its then-owner hijacked a popular Tor hidden service, The Hidden Wiki, pointing its visitors to Doxbin instead as a response to the maintenance of pages dedicated to child pornography links.[4][5][6] In June 2014, their Twitter account was suspended, prompting the site to start listing the personal information of the Twitter founders and CEO.[7] In October 2014, Doxbin hosted personal information about Katherine Forrest, a federal judge responsible for court rulings against the owner of Tor-based black market Silk Road, leading to death threats and harassment.[2][8]

Doxbin and several other hidden services were seized in November 2014 as part of the multinational police initiative Operation Onymous.[9][10][11] Shortly thereafter, one of the site's operators who avoided arrest shared the site's logs and information about how it was compromised with the Tor developers email list, suggesting it could have either been the result of a specialized distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) or exploited mistakes in its PHP code.[9][10][12][13] The site was then transferred to new owners who reclaimed it from authorities and restored it just a week after it went down.

Following nachash's raid, he has since then gone on to write a darknet market vendor guide entitled "So, You Want To Be a Darknet Drug Lord…".[14]

Media Coverage

Doxbin was mentioned by South China Morning Post because police officer names were shared on the website.[15]

See also

References
  1. Fox-Brewster, Tom (2014-12-09). "The darkweb's nihilistic vigilante sees the light". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
  2. Howell O'Neill, Patrick (10 November 2014). "Dark Net hackers steal seized site back from the FBI". Daily Dot. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  3. Hanna, Paul (5 November 2012). "'Remember, Remember': Anonymous marks November 5 with hacks, protests". Retrieved 25 September 2015.
  4. Howell O'Neill, Patrick. "Deep Web hub hacked and shut down over child porn links". Daily Dot.
  5. Mead, Derek (13 March 2014). "A Hacker Scrubbed Child-Porn Links from the Dark Web's Most Popular Site". Vice.
  6. "Twitter Founders' Personal Information Released on Doxbin". Darkweb News. 12 June 2014. Archived from the original on 27 January 2015. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  7. Tarquin (June 12, 2014). "Twitter Founders' Personal Information Released on DOXBIN". Archived from the original on 27 January 2015. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  8. "Site Doxx'es Judge of Silk Road Case – Calls To "Swat" Her". DeepDotWeb. 13 October 2014. Archived from the original on 24 March 2015. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  9. Rauhauser, Neal (11 November 2014). "Doxbin's Nachash On Operation Onymous (P.1)". DeepDotWeb. Archived from the original on 28 January 2015. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  10. Gallagher, Sean (9 November 2014). "Silk Road, other Tor "darknet" sites may have been "decloaked" through DDoS". Ars Technica.
  11. O'Neill, Patrick Howell (17 November 2014). "Tor eyes crowdfunding campaign to upgrade its hidden services". Daily Dot. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  12. Muadh, Zubair (12 November 2014). "Doxbin's Nachash On Operation Onymous (P.2)". Deepdotweb. Archived from the original on 28 January 2015. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  13. nachash [handle]. "[tor-dev] yes hello, internet supervillain here". [tor-dev] mailing list archive.
  14. DeepDotWeb (15 April 2015). "So, You Want To Be a Darknet Drug Lord…". Archived from the original on 19 October 2015. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  15. Low, Zoe. "Hong Kong privacy watchdog refers 600 cases of doxxing to police". South China Morning Post. Alibaba Group. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
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