A hacktivist remotely wiped three white supremacist websites live on stage during their talk at a hacker conference last week, with the sites still back online.
Nickname hacker, passing by Martha Root — dressed as the Pink Ranger from Power Rangers — deleted the WhiteDate, WhiteChild and WhiteDeal servers in real time at the end of a speech at the annual Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany.
Root gave the speech along with reporters Eva Hoffman and Christian FuchsWHERE wrote an article about the hacked websites of the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit in October.
As of this writing, WhiteDate, which Hoffman described as “Tinder for Nazis.” WhiteChild, a website that claimed to match white supremacist sperm and egg donors. and WhiteDeal, a Taskrabbit-style job marketplace for racists, are all offline.
The administrator of the three websites confirmed the hack on their social media accounts.
“They are publicly deleting all my sites while the public rejoices. This is cyber terrorism,” the the administrator wrote to X on Sunday, swearing impact.
The admin also claimed that Root deleted the X account before it was restored.
Root also posted the data it allegedly scraped from WhiteDate online.
The hacker said they breached WhiteDate’s public data and found “poor cyber hygiene that would make even your grandmother’s AOL account blush.” Root said the users’ images included accurate geolocation metadata that “practically dispenses home addresses with a side of awkward selfies.”
“Imagine calling yourself a ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own site – maybe try mastering WordPress hosting before you dominate the world,” Root wrote.
The leaked data includes user profiles with name, photos, description, age, location (both containing exact coordinates and user-defined country and state), gender, language, race, and other user-uploaded personal information. Root wrote on the site that there are “currently” no emails, passwords or private chats.
According to the leaked data, WhiteData had more than 6,500 users, of which 86% were male and 14% female. “A gender ratio that makes Smurf Village look like a feminist utopia,” Root wrote.
Root infiltrated the websites using AI chatbots that bypassed the verification processes and verified as ‘white,’ according to the conversations.” summary.
DDoSecrets, a non-profit collective which stores leaked data sets in the public interest, announced that he received “files and user information” from the three white supremacy websites. The collective, who call this release “WhiteLeaks,” has not released the data, but is asking verified journalists and researchers to request access to the full 100-gigabyte data set.
The operator of the three sites did not immediately respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment, which was sent to an email address that appeared during the conference talk. TechCrunch also sent an email to an address that appears in the public domain records of two of the three sites. The person behind this address also did not immediately respond to our email.
Root, Hoffmann and Fuchs claim to have identified the real identity of the webmaster as a woman from Germany. TechCrunch was unable to independently confirm the identity of the administrator.
