The accused man, Daniel Hale, worked as a Leidos contractor for the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) from 2013-14, began communicating with the reporter in 2013 while at the NSA.

Although there has long been a slate of third-party mobile Tor apps, the official app is now slated to be released in early 2019.

Silk Road shuttered in October 2013 after a high-profile FBI investigation ended with the arrest of Ross Ulbricht who is now serving a double life sentence in American prison.

On June 20, German police raided homes and offices for the group Zwiebelfreunde (translated as Onion Friends), an organization affiliated with the Torservers.net group, which runs servers for the Tor anonymity network.

Launched in 2016, Brave itself is a niche open-source browser with ambitious and sometimes unique goals, including blocking ads while still paying content creators directly from users themselves.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the shutdown of AlphaBay and Hansa in a Thursday press conference.