Following a massive breach, retailer Home Depot has agreed to pay off a settlement of $25 million for damages resulting from the incursion in 2014 that exposed personal information of more than 50 million customers.
Anonymous's compromise of Freedom Hosting II may have reduced the overall size of the Tor network by an estimated 15 to 20 percent, according to researcher Sarah Jamie Lewis, who works for OnionScan, an open-source dark web scanning tool project.
For several pundits, the scandal isn't so much that the CIA possesses sophisticated spying tools, but that the agency allowed someone to exfiltrate close to 9,000 sensitive files from an isolated, secure network in Langley, Va.
It appears that AlphaBay, the largest dark web marketplace, has paid an extortionist several payments since August 2016 to protect the identity of its founder.
A spamming group called River City Media, led by well known spammers Alvin Slocombe and Matt Ferrisi, has had its database of 1.4 billion records leaked.
