Freedom Hosting II
Disclosed Feb 5, 20179 years ago380,830 accountsUnverified
In January 2017, the free hidden service host Freedom Hosting II suffered a data breach . The attack allegedly took down 20% of dark web sites running behind Tor hidden services with the attacker claiming that of the 10,613 impacted sites, more than 50% of the content was child pornography. The hack led to the exposure of MySQL databases for the sites which included a vast amount of information on the hidden services Freedom Hosting II was managing. The impacted data classes far exceeds those listed for the breach and differ between the thousands of impacted sites.
What is known
| People affected | 380,830 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned) |
|---|---|
| Disclosed | Feb 5, 2017 |
| Happened | Jan 31, 2017 |
| Attack | Hacking |
| Data exposed | Emails, Passwords |
| Sector | Tech |
| Status | Unverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization |
| Check your email | Have I Been Pwned |
Sources
| Source | |
|---|---|
| Have I Been Pwned: Freedom Hosting IIhaveibeenpwned.com · Aggregator | Aggregator |
Notices filed
| Where | Filed | People |
|---|---|---|
| Have I Been Pwnedaccounts in the data | Feb 5, 2017 | 380,830 |
History of this record
- 2026-09-25 · added · backfill source
First seen 2026-09-25 (Have I Been Pwned). Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.