'Anonymous' hackers claim to hit website hosting firm popular with Proud Boys

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Source: CNN

The more than 150 gigabytes of data swept up in the breach shine a light on years of online activities from far-right groups, including those who tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election. While researchers are still sifting through the data, Epik has historically provided web hosting services to an array of conspiracy theorists, and for conservative media networks like Parler and Gab.

The breach also undercuts Epik's pledge to customers that it can safeguard their anonymity, no matter what dangerous conspiracy theories they spread online. For that reason, experts told CNN the hack could have repercussions for how far-right groups organize and try to protect themselves online.

"A breach like this will force some of these actors to find security providers outside of North America to possibly step up their security game," Gabriella Coleman, a professor of anthropology at Harvard University, told CNN. Coleman said the data dump "confirmed a lot of the details of the far-right ecosystem."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/21/politics/anonymous-epik-hack/index.html

There's an Ars Technica story with a lot more detail, including this:

"Members of the whistleblower site, Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets), have also made the data set available via alternate means for those unable to use torrents."

A lot of hilarious stuff in the Ars Technica story, including Anonymous mocking Epik's claim that there was no hack.

Millions of RW wackjobs and their internet enables, and possibly their ties to corporate and oligarch funders, exposed by hackers.

Oh, dear.

tsk-tsk.

How terrible.

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