Tor claims that FBI allegedly paid CMU $1M to crack the anonymity of Tor users.
Tor's claim appears to have been triggered by a report last week that said the FBI's arrest of an alleged member of the 'Silk Road 2.0' drug ring was based on "information obtained by a 'university-based research institute' that operated its own computers on the anonymous network used by Silk Road 2.0."
That network was Tor, and the research institute was Carnegie Mellon, Tor said.
"Apparently these [Carnegie Mellon] researchers were paid by the FBI to attack hidden services users in a broad sweep, and then sift through their data to find people whom they could accuse of crimes," Tor Project Director Roger Dingledine wrote in a statement posted on the Tor website.
"We have been told that the payment to CMU was at least $1 million," he added.
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