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‘Unprecedented’ Hacking Campaign By The FBI Targeted Over A Thousand Computers

Posted on January 6, 2016 by Dissent

Kavita Iyer reports:

Two New York men in the summer of 2015 were accused of online child pornography crimes for allegedly visiting a site that was a Tor hidden service. The site apparently would safegaurd the identity of its users and server location. However, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) using a hacking tool to ascertain the IP addresses of the individuals made this case stand out.

The case received some media attention, and scraps of information about other, related arrests started to increase as the year went on. However, the actual extent of the FBI’s bulk hacking campaign has come to light only now.

According to court documents studied by Motherboard and interviews with legal parties involved, the FBI hacked over a thousand computers to combat what it has called one of the largest child pornography sites on the dark web.

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