Hacktivist Deletes White Supremacist Websites Live On Stage During Conference

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A hacktivist remotely wiped three white supremacist websites live onstage during their talk at a hacker conference last week, with the sites yet to return online.

The pseudonymous hacker, who goes by Martha Root — dressed as Pink Ranger from the Power Rangers — deleted the servers of WhiteDate, WhiteChild, and WhiteDeal in real time at the end of a talk at the annual Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany.

Root gave the talk alongside journalists Eva Hoffmann and Christian Fuchs, who wrote an article about the hacked sites for the German weekly paper Die Zeit in October. 

As of this writing, WhiteDate, which Hoffmann described as a “Tinder for Nazis”; WhiteChild, a site that claimed to match white supremacists’ sperm and egg donors; and WhiteDeal, a sort-of Taskrabbit-esque labor marketplace for racists, are all offline.

The administrator of the three websites confirmed the hack on their social media accounts. 

“They publicly delete all my websites while the audience rejoices. This is cyberterrorism,” the administrator wrote on X on Sunday, vowing repercussions.

The administrator also claimed that Root deleted their X account before it was restored.

Root also published the data allegedly scraped from WhiteDate online. 

The hacker said that they scraped WhiteDate’s public data and found “poor cybersecurity hygiene that would make even your grandma’s AOL account blush.” Root said that users’ images included precise geolocation metadata that “practically hands out home addresses with a side of awkward selfies.” 

“Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website — maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination,” Root wrote.

The leaked data includes users’ profiles with name, pictures, description, age, location (both containing precise coordinates and user-set country and state), gender, language, race, and other personal information that users uploaded. Root wrote on the site that “for now” there are no emails, passwords, or private conversations. 

According to the leaked data, WhiteDate had more than 6,500 users, of which 86% were men and 14% women. “A gender ratio that makes the Smurf village look like a feminist utopia,” Root wrote.

Root infiltrated the sites using AI chatbots that bypassed verification processes and were verified as “white,” according to the talks’ abstract. 

DDoSecrets, a nonprofit collective that stores leaked datasets in the public interest, announced that it has received “files and user information” from the three white supremacist websites. The collective, which calls this release “WhiteLeaks,” has not publicly released the data but is instead asking verified journalists and researchers to request access to the full 100 gigabyte dataset.

The administrator of the three websites did not immediately respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment, which was sent to an email address shown during the conference talk. TechCrunch also sent an email to an address that appears on the public domain records of two of the three websites. The person behind that address also did not immediately respond to our email.

Root, Hoffmann, and Fuchs claim to have identified the real identity of the websites’ administrator as a woman from Germany. TechCrunch could not independently confirm the identity of the administrator.

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I find this fascinating for two reasons. Firstly that we still have a huge racist demographic and secondly just how the internet has completely changed society.

 

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5 hours ago, bust said:

... secondly just how the internet has completely changed society.

 

Our saving grace is, that anyone with half a brain and the functional use of that half, will be able to understand the 'net and utilise it for (what we see as) good. There are outliers like Musk, but there are always, greed driven clever folk... 

A line from the vid you posted "understanding of genetics as shaky as his ideology..."

Pretty much sums up most racists, morons, Trumpanzees, and I tread carefully here, non tech folk.

I made a career late in life by taking what corporate (usually marketing) folk wanted and then getting technoids to build said systems. This, after impulse buying an early Mac out of a shop window, and putting my entire business into spreadsheets and databases, when everyone still used books and different coloured pencils. The tax dept had some difficulty adjusting to this, as I was an early adopter.

My point is, that the majority of folk have no understanding of "how" the 'net works. And for every moron doing moron life, there will be somewhere, someone who can disabuse them.

Think again of the invention of the printing press, every man and his dog rushed to print and distribute "pamphlets" that shilled their ideas and causes. Religion was an early adopter as were grifters.  After time, sensible folk, i.e. writers and journalists were able to counter the slop and we got to the 1950s.

The 'net is already, just another tool, but Ai's use of it, as a distribution network is the next worry. Your video showing the journo's trolling of the racists shows that it's not the Ai we should worry about, but the people who own it.

Codicil: Just My Humble Opinion.