On the normal surface web that we use in our day to day lives, web hosting companies offer services that enable individuals and companies to host websites. The same goes for the dark web except that the hosting companies present there are not as well established and may not be able to afford cybersecurity professionals to monitor for vulnerabilities.
One such free hosting service named Daniel’s Hosting (DH) was run by a German developer named Daniel Winzen with approximately 7600 websites on the dark web. However, a few weeks ago on the 10th of March at 3:30 AM UTC on Tuesday, Daniel released a notice stating that all databases of his hosting service had been deleted which means that the company may not continue operating for the foreseeable future.
Due to security reasons, no backups were available to be restored. This happens to be the second attack in the past 16 months on the service.
message from the hosting service:
As Daniel describes that the “hosting database is gone” along with the fact that the attackers set up an entirely new database account, this makes any investigation efforts on who was behind the hack or how it happened futile. The culprits though could be anyone ranging from law enforcement agencies to state-sponsored attackers.
Despite the fact that user accounts in themselves are not believed to have been affected, users were advised to take security precautions and change all aut ..
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