The Dark Web Has Shrunk by 85%

The number of Dark web services has gone down significantly following the Freedom Hosting II hack that took place at the start of February, and is only around 4,400 services, according to a recently published OnionScan report.

Overall, despite its allure, the Dark Web has shrunk tremendously during the past year and is riddled with misconfigured servers. It is no surprise that Sigaint, a very popular email provider operating from the Dark Web, went down ten days after the Freedom Hosting II hack, and has yet to return.