Hacktivist takes down white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference

A hacker activist remotely deleted three white supremacist websites live on stage as they spoke at a hacker conference last week, with the sites yet to come back online.

Hacker by nickname, who passes Martha Root – Dressed as the Pink Ranger from Power Rangers – Delete WhiteDate, WhiteChild, and WhiteDeal servers in real time At the end of the conversation At the annual Chaos Communications Conference in Hamburg, Germany.

Root gave the talk alongside reporters Eva Hoffman and Christian Foxfrom He wrote an article About the hacked websites of German weekly newspaper Die Zeit in October.

As of this writing, WhiteDate, which Hoffman describes as “Tinder for Nazis”; WhiteChild, a site that claimed to match white supremacists with sperm and egg donors; and WhiteDeal, a Taskrabbit-like job marketplace for racists, are all offline.

The administrator of the three sites confirmed the hack through their social media accounts.

“They are publicly deleting all my websites while the public rejoices. This is cyber terrorism.” The official wrote on X On Sunday, threatening repercussions.

The official also claimed that Root deleted his X account before restoring it.

Root also posted data allegedly obtained from WhiteDate online.

The hacker said they deleted WhiteDate’s public data and found “poor cybersecurity hygiene that would make your grandmother’s AOL account red.” Users’ photos included precise geolocation metadata that “practically distributes home addresses with a side of awkward selfies,” Root said.

“Imagine calling yourself a ‘race master’ but forgetting to secure your website – perhaps trying to master WordPress hosting before world domination,” Root wrote.

The leaked data includes user profiles with name, photos, description, age, location (both containing precise coordinates and the country selected by the user), gender, language, ethnicity and other personal information uploaded by users. Root wrote on the site that “at this time” there are no emails, passwords or private chats.

According to the leaked data, WhiteData had more than 6,500 users, of whom 86% were men and 14% were women. “The gender ratio makes Smurf Village look like a feminist utopia,” Root wrote.

The root infiltrated sites using AI-powered chatbots that bypassed verifications and were verified as “white,” according to the chats. a summary.

De De Secrets, A Non-profit collective Which stores leaked data sets for the public interest, She announced that she had received “Files and User Information” from three white supremacist sites. collective that calls this version “WhiteLeaksdoes not release the data publicly, but instead asks accredited journalists and researchers to request access to the full 100GB data set.

The administrator for the three sites did not immediately respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment sent to the email address provided during the conference talk. TechCrunch also sent an email to an address that appears in public domain records for two of the three websites. The person behind this address also did not immediately respond to our email.

Root, Hoffman, and Fuchs claim to have identified the real identity of the site manager as a woman from Germany. TechCrunch was unable to independently confirm the identity of the administrator.