Cthulhu (developer)

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Thomas White, also known as Cthulhu, is a British computer programmer who co-founded Silk Road 2.0 and Distributed Denial of Secrets. [1] In 2019, he was sentenced to five years in prison on various charges in the United Kingdom related to his operation of Silk Road 2.0 and for possessing indecent images of children.

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Career

White claimed to have worked in a security vetted/cleared role at Enhanced Developed Vetting (eDV) level from August 2013 to December 2016 on his LinkedIn profile. [2] White was consulted on a number of Tor security matters such as dark web scams, [3] [4] law enforcement raids [5] and darknet markets. [6]

White co-founded Silk Road 2.0 in 2013. In November 2014, White was arrested as the mastermind behind Silk Road 2.0.

In January 2016 he hosted a release of the files hacked from the Fraternal Order of Police. [7] [8] He has hosted a number of other data dumps including those associated with Hacking Team, [9] Ashley Madison, [10] and Patreon. [11] [12]

In 2018, White founded Distributed Denial of Secrets, which has been called a successor to the web leak depository Wikileaks. [13]

In April 2019, for his activities with Silk Road 2.0, White pleaded guilty to charges in the United Kingdom including drug trafficking, money laundering, as well as making indecent images of children, and was sentenced to a total of 5 years and 4 months in prison. [14]

References

  1. ↑ Cox ·, Joseph (12 August 2024). "Co-Founder of DDoSecrets Was Dark Web Drug Kingpin" . 404 Media. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  2. ↑ Twitter https://twitter.com/deku_shrub/status/1117809803169009664 . Retrieved 14 October 2022.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ Cox, Joseph (14 September 2015). "This .Onion Farmer Is Squatting on 40 Million Dark Web Domains" . Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  4. ↑ Cox, Joseph (12 June 2015). "Dark Web Spam Is Stealing People's Bitcoins" . Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  5. ↑ Pauli, Darren (22 December 2014). "STAY AWAY: Popular Tor exit relays look raided" . Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  6. ↑ Cox, Joseph (22 June 2015). "This Researcher Is Hunting Down IP Addresses of Dark Web Sites" . Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  7. ↑ Cox, Joseph (29 January 2016). "US Police Organisation Hacked, Documents Posted Online" . Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  8. ↑ Swaine, Jon (29 January 2016). "Hackers post private files of America's biggest police union" . Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  9. ↑ Osbourne, Charlie (7 June 2015). "Hacking Team: We won't 'shrivel up and go away' after cyberattack" . Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  10. ↑ Sposito, Sean (8 October 2015). "Why an Internet activist refuses to take down Patreon breach data" . Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  11. ↑ Goodin, Dan (2 October 2015). "Gigabytes of user data from hack of Patreon donations site dumped online" . Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  12. ↑ Fox-Brewster, Thomas (5 October 2015). "Dark Web Denizen Declines To Ditch Patreon Data Dump" . Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  13. ↑ Cox, Joseph (12 August 2024). "Co-Founder of DDoSecrets Was Dark Web Drug Kingpin". 404 Media. Retrieved 7 February 2025.
  14. ↑ Cox, Joseph (12 April 2019). "Silk Road 2 Founder Dread Pirate Roberts 2 Caught, Jailed for 5 Years" . Retrieved 13 April 2019.



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