Cthulhu (developer)
{{Short description|British Tor hidden service developer and administrator}}
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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.{{Cite web |last=Cox · |first=Joseph |date=2024-08-12 |title=Co-Founder of DDoSecrets Was Dark Web Drug Kingpin |url=https://www.404media.co/co-founder-of-ddosecrets-was-dark-web-drug-kingpin/ |access-date=2024-08-13 |website=404 Media |language=en |url-access=subscription}} 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.
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.{{Cite web |url=https://twitter.com/deku_shrub/status/1117809803169009664 |access-date=2022-10-14 |website=Twitter |language=en}} White was consulted on a number of Tor security matters such as dark web scams,{{cite news |last1=Cox |first1=Joseph |date=14 September 2015 |title=This .Onion Farmer Is Squatting on 40 Million Dark Web Domains |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-onion-farmer-is-squatting-on-40-million-dark-web-domains/ |access-date=29 January 2016}}{{cite news |last1=Cox |first1=Joseph |date=12 June 2015 |title=Dark Web Spam Is Stealing People's Bitcoins |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/dark-web-spam-is-stealing-peoples-bitcoins/ |access-date=29 January 2016}} law enforcement raids{{cite news |last1=Pauli |first1=Darren |date=22 December 2014 |title=STAY AWAY: Popular Tor exit relays look raided |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/22/stay_away_popular_tor_exit_relays_look_raided/ |accessdate=29 January 2016}} and darknet markets.{{cite news |last1=Cox |first1=Joseph |date=22 June 2015 |title=This Researcher Is Hunting Down IP Addresses of Dark Web Sites |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-researcher-is-hunting-down-ip-addresses-of-dark-web-sites/ |access-date=29 January 2016}}
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.{{cite news |last1=Cox |first1=Joseph |date=29 January 2016 |title=US Police Organisation Hacked, Documents Posted Online |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/us-police-organisation-hacked-documents-posted-online-fraternal-order-of-police/ |access-date=29 January 2016}}{{cite news |last1=Swaine |first1=Jon |date=29 January 2016 |title=Hackers post private files of America's biggest police union |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/28/fraternal-order-of-police-hacked-fbi-investigation-data-servers |accessdate=29 January 2016}} He has hosted a number of other data dumps including those associated with Hacking Team,{{cite news |last1=Osbourne |first1=Charlie |date=7 June 2015 |title=Hacking Team: We won't 'shrivel up and go away' after cyberattack |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/hacking-team-cyberattack-aftermath-interview/ |access-date=29 January 2016}} Ashley Madison,{{cite news |last1=Sposito |first1=Sean |date=8 October 2015 |title=Why an Internet activist refuses to take down Patreon breach data |url=http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Why-an-Internet-activist-refuses-to-take-down-6559586.php |accessdate=29 January 2016}} and Patreon.{{cite news |last1=Goodin |first1=Dan |date=2 October 2015 |title=Gigabytes of user data from hack of Patreon donations site dumped online |url=http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2015/10/gigabytes-of-user-data-from-hack-of-patreon-donations-site-dumped-online/ |accessdate=29 January 2016}}{{cite news |last1=Fox-Brewster |first1=Thomas |date=5 October 2015 |title=Dark Web Denizen Declines To Ditch Patreon Data Dump |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/10/05/patreon-data-dump-online/ |accessdate=29 January 2016}}
In 2018, White founded Distributed Denial of Secrets, which has been called a successor to the web leak depository Wikileaks.{{Cite web |last=Cox |first=Joseph |date=2024-08-12 |title=Co-Founder of DDoSecrets Was Dark Web Drug Kingpin |url=https://www.404media.co/co-founder-of-ddosecrets-was-dark-web-drug-kingpin/ |access-date=2025-02-07 |website=404 Media |language=en}}
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.{{cite news |last1=Cox |first1=Joseph |date=12 April 2019 |title=Silk Road 2 Founder Dread Pirate Roberts 2 Caught, Jailed for 5 Years |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/silk-road-2-founder-dread-pirate-roberts-2-caught-jailed-for-5-years/ |access-date=13 April 2019}}
External links
- [https://www.thomaswhite.se/ Personal site]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160215092850/https://www.thecthulhu.com/ Old Personal site]
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Category:British computer specialists
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