FBI Has Tor Mail's Entire Email Database
was an anonymized email service run over Tor. It was operated by a
company called Freedom Hosting, which was shut down by the FBI last August. The owner was arrested for 'enabling child porn,' and the Tor Mail servers suddenly began hosting FBI malware that attempted to de-anonymize users. Now, Wired reports on a new court filing which indicates that the FBI was also able to grab Tor Mail's entire email database.
'The filings show the FBI built its case in part by executing a search
warrant on a Gmail account used by the counterfeiters, where they found
that orders for forged cards were being sent to a TorMail e-mail
account: "platplus@tormail.net." Acting on that lead in September, the
FBI obtained a search warrant for the TorMail account, and then accessed
it from the bureau's own copy of "data and information from the TorMail
e-mail server, including the content of TorMail e-mail accounts,"
according to the complaint (PDF) sworn out by U.S. Postal Inspector Eric Malecki.'"
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