Tox denies that his site was hacked or that this is the motivation for him quitting. Instead, Tox claims, it is the threat of law enforcement that is making him pull the plug.

The Tox ransomware as-a-service platform is now up for bid -- as the owner is in over their head. X. Trending. Samsung Unpacked 2025: Everything you might've missed; T-Mobile ...

The developer behind Tox, a ransomware-as-a-service tool that only surfaced late last month, acknowledged he’s over his head and will sell the platform off.

But Tox is trying to roll both peer-to-peer and voice calling into one. Actually, it's going a bit further than that. Tox is actually just a protocol for encrypted peer-to-peer data transmission.