[1] Doxbin was established by an individual known online as "moonique"[1] to act as a secure, anonymous venue for the publication of a dox.

[1] It first attracted attention in March 2014 when its then-owner hijacked a popular Tor hidden service, The Hidden Wiki, pointing its visitors to Doxbin instead as a response to the maintenance of pages dedicated to child pornography links.

[6] In October 2014, Doxbin hosted personal information about Katherine Forrest, a federal judge responsible for court rulings against the owner of Tor-based black market Silk Road, leading to death threats and harassment.

[2][7] Doxbin and several other hidden services were seized in November 2014 as part of the multinational police initiative Operation Onymous.

[8][9][10] Shortly thereafter, one of the site's operators who avoided arrest shared the site's logs and information about how it was compromised with the Tor developers email list, suggesting it could have either been the result of a specialized distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) or exploited mistakes in its PHP code.