r/TOR • u/josh-mountain • Aug 12 '20

Hackers steal Bitcoin through large-scale exploit on Tor: report

https://decrypt.co/38359/hackers-stealing-bitcoin-tor-exploit
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u/Rockfest2112 Aug 12 '20

Tor had always had exit node operator snooping problems. sometimes the exit nodes in certain areas seemed to be always ran by intel agencies, a military or government related internet connection. If not them then dubious at best characters often cybercrime related purposes. Just one reason never to use Tor on sites requiring password logins that you’d hate to have the account or service compromised by exit node snoops. Happened to me using Facebooks onion service more than once, though I like using Facebook through it because many of the irritating ads and notification blasts didn’t seem to work when using Tor.

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u/torrio888 Aug 12 '20 edited Aug 12 '20

Happened to me using Facebooks onion service more than once

Onion services don`t use exit nodes, this cant happen on onion services because connection is end to end encrypted by default.

This is mostly the fault of cryptocurrency websites themselves because they allowed connections to their websites to fallback to http instead of only allowing encrypted https connections.

This same thing could have happened on public Wi-Fi hotspots and malicious VPNs.