Anonymous file sharing site AnonFiles has shut down, citing a pattern of abusive material and people abusing the platform.

AnonFiles is a popular site for people to share files anonymously. Unfortunately, bad actors abused the platform to share stolen data from hacks, breaches, and ransomware attacks, as well as copyrighted content,

As a result, the site has shut down, laying the blame squarely on the shoulders of those that abused it, according to a message on the home page:

After trying endlessly for two years to run a file sharing site with user anonymity we have been tired of handling the extreme volumes of people abusing it and the headaches it has created for us. Maybe it is hard to understand but after tens of million uploads and many petabytes later all work of handling abuse was automated through all available channels to be fast as possible.

We have auto banned contents of hundreds of thousands files. Banned file names and also banned specific usage patterns connected to abusive material to the point where we did not care if we accidental delete thousands of false positive in this process.

Even after all this the high volume of abuse will not stop. This is not the kind of work we imagine when acquiring it and recently our proxy provider shut us down.

This can not continue.