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Type of site | Pastebin |
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| Available in | English |
| Founder | nachash |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | May 30, 2011; 14 years ago (2011-05-30) |
| Current status | Defunct |
| Written in | PHP |
Doxbin was anonion service in the form of apastebin used to post orleak (often referred to asdoxing)personal data of any person of interest.
Due to the illegal nature of much of the information it published (such associal security numbers, bank routing information, and credit card information, all inplain text), it was one of many sites seized duringOperation Onymous, a multinational police initiative, in November 2014.[1]
Doxbin was established by an individual known online as "Nachash"[1] to act as a secure,anonymous venue for the publication of a dox.[2][1]
In November 2012, Doxbin'sTwitter handle @Doxbin was attributed to an attack onSymantec, coordinated withAnonymous'Operation Vendetta.[1]
It first attracted attention in March 2014 when its then-owner hijacked a popularTor hidden service,The Hidden Wiki, pointing its visitors to Doxbin instead as a response to the maintenance of pages dedicated tochild pornography links.[3][4][5] In June 2014, theirTwitter account was suspended, prompting the site to start listing the personal information of the Twitter founders and CEO.[5] In October 2014, Doxbin hosted personal information aboutKatherine Forrest, afederal judge responsible for court rulings against the owner ofTor-basedblack marketSilk Road, leading todeath threats andharassment.[2][6]
Doxbin and several other hidden services were seized in November 2014 as part of the multinational police initiativeOperation Onymous.[7][8][9] Shortly thereafter, one of the site's operators who avoided arrest shared the site's logs and information about how it was compromised with the Tor developers email list, suggesting it could have either been the result of a specializeddistributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) or exploited mistakes in itsPHP code.[7][8][10][11] However, the site could still be restored easily by setting up a new domain.[1]
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