Recent federal court documents show that multiple suspected board users of an unnamed DW child porn site have been reportedly ID’d by the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). However, unlike the world-wide bust of almost 1000 users of the once-popular DW site “Playpen”, a site which was temporarily run by DHS and FBI agents for a fews days before the arrests, Federal law enforcement didn’t accomplish this with exploits of the Tor protocol, or by a comprehensive hack. Instead, they found a workaround: users of the dark web site posted links to child pornography that was hosted on a file sharing service, so investigators obtained IP addresses from that host.
Read more here: https://www.deepdotweb.com/2017/05/24/dark-web-child-porn-users-caught-using-clearnet-file-sharing-service/