Hackers warned against the biggest website on child pornography in the world

Welcome to Video, the largest child pornography site on the planet, was dismantled and closed as part of a joint FBI operation with agencies in South Korea, the United Kingdom and Germany, with the collaboration of Spain, France, Italy and Saudi Arabia. d & # 39; Other

It was a gigantic "warehouse" of videos and images focused on child abuse, which remained operational thanks to the "Dark Web", the darkest place in the world. the Internet, where the crime was at ease.

The existence of Welcome to Video was not exactly a secret, and precisely one journalist working for CBS confirmed that he had received a "blast" from hackers in November 2017; information that could not be corroborated for fear of the legal consequences of involvement in the larger network of pederasty network.

The reporter in question, Zack Whittaker, now editor of Security at https://techcrunch.com/, explained: "For me, this marked the end of a story I wanted to write for two years. In November 2017, a group of hackers He contacted me and claimed to have entered a dark website that was carrying out a massive operation of sexual exploitation of children .I was stunned . "

"They also provided me with a text file containing a sample of a thousand IP addresses from people who said they were connected to the site." The hackers boasted of having deviated of the list after being connected, without the knowledge of They had more than a hundred thousand, but they did not share them, "he added in an article in which he explained the details.

"But we were also faced with another problem: there was no legal way to access the site to check what the hackers claimed."

"I contacted an FBI contact, who transferred me to a special agent from an outside office.After a brief phone call, I sent an e-mail to the four IP addresses programmed to be the actual location of the dark website, and the list of a thousand suspected users of the site, "he continued.

"Then silence, I did not hear anything again." I continued and asked, but the agent warned me that if the site was, or was already, under investigation, there would be little if any everything, things to say, I remember that hackers were frustrated and after telling them that I would not write the story, we do not communicate anymore. "