Anonymous Hacker Pulls Plug on Thousands of Dark Net SitesTwenty percent of the Dark Net was taken offline last week, when a hacker compromised a server hosting some 10,000 websites on the Tor network. Tor, designed to hide the identities of its users, is widely used on the Dark Web, which serves as a hub for illegal online activities. Visitors to the affected pages were greeted with the message, "Hello, Freedom Hosting II, you've been hacked."
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Anonymous Hacker Pulls Plug on Thousands of Dark Net Sites