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Playpen was a website that hosted and shared child pornography anonymously through Tor network. It was shut down by the FBI in 2015 after a long investigation that involved hacking and arresting users.
Playpen was a child pornography website on the Tor network that had over 150,000 users worldwide. The FBI and its international partners investigated and prosecuted the site's...
The FBI kept Playpen online for 13 days. During that time, federal prosecutors told defense lawyers that the site included more than 23,000 sexually explicit images and videos of children.
Playpen was a darknet child pornography website that operated from August 2014 to March 2015. The website operated through the Tor network which allowed users to use the website anonymously. After running the website for 6 months, the website owner Steven W. Chase was captured by the FBI.
The creator and lead administrator of Playpen, a highly sophisticated website dedicated to the sexual abuse of children which operated on the Tor anonymity network, was sentenced today for his role in this global child exploitation enterprise.
The FBI seized and ran a Tor site called Playpen that hosted child pornography, and used malware to identify and charge hundreds of users. Learn about the technical and legal challenges of this unprecedented and illegal hacking operation.
The targets of the FBI’s investigation were users of Playpen, a site on the so-called dark web that one FBI agent described as “the largest remaining known child pornography hidden service in...
Steven Chase set up the Playpen site on the Tor dark web network in early 2014. By the time it was shut down a year later it had more than 150,000 users and hosted more than 50,000 images and...
In December 2014, the FBI received a tip from a foreign law enforcement agency that a Tor Hidden Service site called “Playpen” was hosting child pornography and that its actual IP address was publicly visible and appeared to resolve to a location within the United States.
Steven Chase—creator of the world’s most notorious darknet child pornography site, Playpen—was sentenced to 30 years in prison earlier this week. By comparison, his two co-defendants pleaded...