Cthulhu (developer)

Mug shot of Thomas White

Thomas White aka Cthulhu is a British former Tor hidden service developer and administrator. He co-founded Silk Road 2.0 and DDoSecrets.[1]

Activities involved being consulted on a number of Tor security matters such as dark web scams,[2][3] law enforcement raids[4] and darknet markets.[5]

He has hosted a number of data dumps including those associated with Hacking Team,[6] Ashley Madison,[7] and Patreon.[8][9]

In January 2016 he hosted a release of the files hacked from the Fraternal Order of Police.[10][11]

  1. ^ Cox ·, Joseph (12 August 2024). "Co-Founder of DDoSecrets Was Dark Web Drug Kingpin". 404 Media. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  2. ^ Cox, Joseph (14 September 2015). "This .Onion Farmer Is Squatting on 40 Million Dark Web Domains". Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  3. ^ Cox, Joseph (12 June 2015). "Dark Web Spam Is Stealing People's Bitcoins". Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  4. ^ Pauli, Darren (22 December 2014). "STAY AWAY: Popular Tor exit relays look raided". Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  5. ^ Cox, Joseph (22 June 2015). "This Researcher Is Hunting Down IP Addresses of Dark Web Sites". Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  6. ^ Osbourne, Charlie (7 June 2015). "Hacking Team: We won't 'shrivel up and go away' after cyberattack". Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  7. ^ Sposito, Sean (8 October 2015). "Why an Internet activist refuses to take down Patreon breach data". Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  8. ^ Goodin, Dan (2 October 2015). "Gigabytes of user data from hack of Patreon donations site dumped online". Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  9. ^ Fox-Brewster, Thomas (5 October 2015). "Dark Web Denizen Declines To Ditch Patreon Data Dump". Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  10. ^ Cox, Joseph (29 January 2016). "US Police Organisation Hacked, Documents Posted Online". Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  11. ^ Swaine, Jon (29 January 2016). "Hackers post private files of America's biggest police union". Retrieved 29 January 2016.