diff --git a/package/tor/tor.hash b/package/tor/tor.hash
index d2e3cc533d..34c7c0f097 100644
--- a/package/tor/tor.hash
+++ b/package/tor/tor.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# From https://dist.torproject.org/tor-0.4.8.15.tar.gz.sha256sum
-sha256  5d5d99e21992c4c71af1afcef16c70f4c5e7ee021633ac138b2a2761be75064b  tor-0.4.8.15.tar.gz
+# From https://dist.torproject.org/tor-0.4.8.16.tar.gz.sha256sum
+sha256  6540dd377a120fb8e7d27530aa3b7ff72a0fa5b4f670fe1d64c987c1cfd390cb  tor-0.4.8.16.tar.gz
 # Locally computed
 sha256  47b54ed17e8fdcab3c44729a1789a09b208f9a63a845a7e50def9df729eebad0  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/tor/tor.mk b/package/tor/tor.mk
index e8e769bdef..5f376d136f 100644
--- a/package/tor/tor.mk
+++ b/package/tor/tor.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-TOR_VERSION = 0.4.8.15
+TOR_VERSION = 0.4.8.16
 TOR_SITE = https://dist.torproject.org
 TOR_LICENSE = BSD-3-Clause
 TOR_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE