Silk Road: suspicions grow that server was hacked ahead of arrests

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/08/silk-road-hack-suspicion-fbi-server

By Charles Arthur
theguardian.com
8 October 2013

There's a new theory about how the FBI And CIA tracked down the physical 
location of the Silk Road servers, and it has nothing to do with the man 
accused of being the site's operator, Ross Ulbricht, or queries he might 
have made on StackExchange.

Instead, the rumour in hacker circles is that the CIA - with or without 
the help of the National Security Agency - accessed the server via Tor, 
and somehow ran an exploit on it which meant that they could locate it 
over the "normal" internet.

Having done that, they then got in touch with the company hosting the 
server itself (which may be in Iceland, as we'll explain) and then managed 
to take an image of the server. They may also have planted tracking 
systems on the server which allowed them to trace those who logged in to 
Silk Road - which would certainly help to explain how the British police 
last week arrested four men on suspicion of supplying controlled 
substances through Silk Road.

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