Owner of dark web Freedom hosting pleads guilty to host child abuse content

Owner of dark web Freedom hosting pleads guilty to host child abuse content

The hosting service contained well over 8.5 million child abuse images.


Back in 2013, HackRead.com reported about the shutting down of a well-known dark web hosting services provider called Freedom for offering child abuse content via Tor’s encrypted network.


The owner of Freedom Web Hosting, Eric Eoin Marques was arrested for his involvement in facilitating child pornography. The site users also complained that the Tor browser copy hosted by Freedom Web Hosting was infected with malicious JavaScript that de-anonymized them. 


See: Anonymous shut down thousands of Dark Web sites for hosting child porn


Hackread.com has been following this case since 2013. Marques was arrested by the FBI and extradited to the USA on 23 March 2019. As per the latest development, the 33-year old accused has pleaded guilty in a Maryland court before a US District Judge Theodore D. Chuang. 

Marques, a dual national of the US and Ireland, has admitted conspiring to advertise child porn between July 24, 2008, and July 29, 2008, through an anonymous web hosting service (AHS), which he operated on the Dark Web. The AHS was a free web hosting service that allowed users to access, view, and share objectionable child sexual abuse content/images involving prepubescent minors.



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