A hacktivist remotely wiped three white supremacist web sites stay on stage throughout their discuss 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 real-time at the end of a talk on the annual Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany.
Root gave the discuss alongside journalists Eva Hoffmann and Christian Fuchs, who wrote an article in regards to 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 website 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 printed the information allegedly scraped from WhiteDate on-line.
The hacker stated that they scraped WhiteDate’s public knowledge and located “poor cybersecurity hygiene that may make even your grandma’s AOL account blush.” Root stated that customers’ photos included exact geolocation metadata that “virtually palms out dwelling addresses with a aspect of awkward selfies.”
“Think about calling yourselves the ‘grasp race’ however forgetting to safe your personal web site — perhaps strive mastering to host WordPress earlier than world domination,” Root wrote.
The leaked knowledge 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 positioning that “for now” there aren’t any emails, passwords or non-public conversations.
In line with the leaked knowledge, WhiteData had greater than 6,500 customers, of which 86% males and 14% ladies. “A gender ratio that makes the Smurf village appear to be a feminist utopia,” Root wrote.
Root infiltrated the websites utilizing AI chatbots that bypassed verification processes and had been verified as “white,” in line with the talks’ abstract.
DDoSecrets, a nonprofit collective that shops leaked datasets within the public curiosity, announced that it has received “information 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 e-mail tackle proven in the course of the convention discuss. TechCrunch additionally despatched an e-mail to an tackle that seems on the general public area data of two of the three web sites. The individual behind that tackle additionally didn’t instantly reply to our e-mail.
Root, Hoffmann, and Fuchs declare to have recognized the actual identification of the web sites’ administrator as a lady from Germany. TechCrunch couldn’t independently verify the identification of the administrator.
