Doxbin

Doxbin was a document sharing and publishing website which invites users to contribute personally identifiable information, or "dox", of any person of interest. It operates on the darknet as a Tor hidden service. Due to the illegal nature of much of the information it publishes, it was one of many sites seized during Operation Onymous, a multinational police initiative, in November 2014. It was restored under different ownership in the same month.

A similar such hidden service site for doxing is Cloudnine.

History

Doxbin was established to act as a secure, anonymous venue for the publication of dox, a term in Internet culture which refers to personally identifiable information about individuals, including social security numbers, street addresses, usernames, and passwords, obtained through a variety of legal and illegal means.

In November 2012, its Twitter handle @Doxbin was attributed to an attack on Symantec, coordinated with Anonymous's OpVendetta.

It first attracted attention in March 2014 when its then-owner hijacked a popular Tor hidden service, The Hidden Wiki, pointing its visitors to Doxbin instead as a response to the maintenance of pages dedicated to child pornography links. In June 2014, the official @doxbin Twitter account was suspended, prompting the site to start listing the personal information of the Twitter founders and CEO. In October 2014 Doxbin hosted personal information about Katherine Forrest, a federal judge responsible for court rulings against the owner of Tor-based black market Silk Road, leading to death threats and harassment.