Thomas White aka Cthulhu is a British former Tor hidden service developer and administrator. Activities involved being consulted on a number of Tor security matters such as

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scams, law enforcement raids and

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s. He has hosted a number of data dumps including those associated with

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, and

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. In January 2016 he hosted a release of the files hacked from the

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Arrest & Silk Road 2.0

In November 2014, White was arrested as the mastermind behind

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. In April 2019, White pleaded guilty to charges 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.

Career (other activities)

He had claimed to have worked in a security vetted/cleared role at Enchanced Developed Vetting (eDV) level from August 2013 to December 2016 on his LinkedIn profile.

External links

Personal site

Old Personal site

References

Living people British computer specialists People associated with computer security Dark web Tor (anonymity network) Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) {{UK-compu-bio-stub