A hacktivist remotely wiped three white supremacist web sites reside onstage throughout their speak at a hacker convention final week, with the websites but to return on-line.
The pseudonymous hacker, who goes by Martha Root — dressed as Pink Ranger from the Energy Rangers — deleted the servers of WhiteDate, WhiteChild, and WhiteDeal in actual time at the end of a talk on the annual Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany.
Root gave the speak alongside journalists Eva Hoffmann and Christian Fuchs, who wrote an article concerning the hacked websites for the German weekly paper Die Zeit in October.
As of this writing WhiteDate, which Hoffmann described as a “Tinder for Nazis”; WhiteChild, a web site that claimed to match white supremacists’ sperm and egg donors; and WhiteDeal, a sort-of Taskrabbit-esque labor market for racists, are all offline.
The administrator of the three web sites confirmed the hack on their social media accounts.
“They publicly delete all my web sites whereas the viewers rejoices. That is cyberterrorism,” the administrator wrote on X on Sunday, vowing repercussions.
The administrator additionally claimed that Root deleted their X account earlier than it was restored.
Root additionally revealed the information allegedly scraped from WhiteDate on-line.
The hacker stated that they scraped WhiteDate’s public information and located “poor cybersecurity hygiene that might make even your grandma’s AOL account blush.” Root stated that customers’ pictures included exact geolocation metadata that “virtually arms out house addresses with a facet of awkward selfies.”
“Think about calling yourselves the ‘grasp race’ however forgetting to safe your personal web site — possibly strive mastering to host WordPress earlier than world domination,” Root wrote.
The leaked information contains customers’ profiles with title, footage, description, age, location (each containing exact coordinates and user-set nation and state), gender, language, race, and different private info that customers uploaded. Root wrote on the location that “for now” there are not any emails, passwords, or non-public conversations.
In line with the leaked information, WhiteData had greater than 6,500 customers, of which 86% males and 14% girls. “A gender ratio that makes the Smurf village appear like a feminist utopia,” Root wrote.
Root infiltrated the websites utilizing AI chatbots that bypassed verification processes and had been verified as “white,” in keeping with the talks’ abstract.
DDoSecrets, a nonprofit collective that shops leaked datasets within the public curiosity, announced that it has received “recordsdata and consumer info” from the three white supremacist web sites. The collective, which calls this launch “WhiteLeaks,” has not publicly launched the information however is as a substitute asking verified journalists and researchers to request entry to the complete 100 gigabyte dataset.
The administrator of the three web sites didn’t instantly reply to TechCrunch’s request for remark despatched to an electronic mail handle proven throughout the convention speak. TechCrunch additionally despatched an electronic mail to an handle that seems on the general public area data of two of the three web sites. The particular person behind that handle additionally didn’t instantly reply to our electronic mail.
Root, Hoffmann, and Fuchs declare to have recognized the true id of the web sites’ administrator as a lady from Germany. TechCrunch couldn’t independently affirm the id of the administrator.
