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TorMail compromised by FBI

2014-01-27 17:39:46.770905+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

FBI has seized the entire email database of the "TorMail" anonymous webmail service and is now using that database to pursue investigations unrelated to the original warrant.

Acting on that lead in September, the FBI obtained a search warrant for the TorMail account, and then accessed it from the bureau’s own copy of “data and information from the TorMail e-mail server, including the content of TorMail e-mail accounts,” according to the complaint (.pdf) sworn out by U.S. Postal Inspector Eric Malecki.

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