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A hacktivist known as Martha Root deleted three white supremacist websites during a live presentation at a hacker conference in Germany. The sites, which included platforms for racist matchmaking and labor, remain offline, and Root exposed serious security flaws in their data. The administrator of the websites condemned the act as cyberterrorism and claimed repercussions would follow.
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A hacktivist named Martha Root erased three white supremacist websites—WhiteDate, WhiteChild, and WhiteDeal—during a live presentation at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg. Dressed as the Pink Ranger, Root executed the deletions in real time, leaving the sites offline. WhiteDate was described as a dating platform for white supremacists, WhiteChild matched donors for white supremacists' offspring, and WhiteDeal functioned as a labor marketplace for racists. The administrator of these sites confirmed the hack, labeling it as cyberterrorism on social media.
Root claimed to have discovered significant security flaws on WhiteDate, revealing that user images contained geolocation data, effectively disclosing home addresses. The leaked data included user profiles with detailed personal information but did not contain emails or passwords. The dataset reportedly included over 6,500 users, with a stark gender imbalance: 86% men and 14% women, a statistic Root humorously compared to a fictional village of Smurfs. Root infiltrated the sites using AI chatbots that bypassed verification processes.
DDoSecrets, a nonprofit that archives leaked datasets, received information from the hacked sites under the name “WhiteLeaks.” They are not releasing the data publicly but are allowing verified journalists and researchers to access the full 100 gigabyte dataset. Root, along with journalists Eva Hoffmann and Christian Fuchs, claims to have identified the real identity of the websites' administrator as a woman from Germany, though TechCrunch could not verify this information.
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