Massive hack reveals all the embarrassing details about Deplorable websites

[RoryN]

The Washington Post: Huge hack reveals embarrassing details of who's behind Proud Boys and other far-right websites

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/21/epik-far-right-hack-anonymous/

 

[pecksniff]

Paywalled. Who is it?

 

[BluesDriver66]

Embarrassment requires a sense of shame and basic understanding of the difference between right and wrong. I seriously doubt the revelations are embarrassing at all to the service providers. Probably quite proud of them.

 

[LupusDei]

I will leave this here:

Epik data breach impacts 15 million users, including non-customers

"The breach exposed a huge volume of data not just of Epik customers, but also scraped WHOIS records belonging to individuals and organisations who were not Epik customers," states HaveIBeenPwned. "The data included over 15 million unique email addresses (including anonymised versions for domain privacy), names, phone numbers, physical addresses, purchases and passwords stored in various formats."

Ars has seen a part of the leaked whois.sql data set file, roughly 16 GB in size, with emails, IP addresses, domains, physical addresses, and phone numbers of the users. We noticed WHOIS records for some domains were dated and contained incorrect information about domain owners—people who no longer own these assets.

 

[RoryN]

This is escalating as researchers pour over the data...

 

[pecksniff]

This is escalating as researchers pour over the data...

Who is behind funding the Proud Boys, etc.?

 

[domroger]

How many of our RW members are in that data dump ? Enquiring minds need to know .