Posted on 10/04/2021 11:36:31 AM PDT by American Number 181269513
Hackers operating under the banner of Anonymous have released more data from Epik, the controversial web hosting company known for offering refuge to the far-right.
In a press release titled “You Lost The Game,” the hacktivist group announced on Monday part three of what it has dubbed “Operation EPIK FAIL.”
The latest leak is alleged to contain more bootable disk images of Epik’s servers as well as a data backup linked to the Republican Party of Texas, which is said to include “private documents” and “draft articles that didn’t make the narrative cut.” The Texas GOP website had been defaced by Anonymous in retaliation for the state’s controversial abortion ban on Sept. 11.
The Daily Dot is in the process of verifying the authenticity of the data after receiving it.
The campaign against Epik was first acknowledged on Sept. 13 when Anonymous revealed that it had breached the domain registrar, exposing at least 180GB of sensitive data. The hackers followed up on Sept. 30 with “The /b/ Sides,” a more than 300GB release containing bootable disk images of Epik’s servers.
The leaks have continued to cause widespread fallout for Epik’s customers, which includes websites such as Parler, Gab, 8chan, and TheDonald. The first release exposed everything from passwords and credit card numbers to customer names, email addresses, physical addresses, and phone numbers.
Epik CEO Rob Monster would eventually weigh in on the breach on Sept. 16 in an unorthodox video conference open to the public. The four-hour meeting saw Monster break out into prayer multiple times, issue warnings about “cursed” hard drives bursting into flames, and engage in a back-and-forth with a notorious neo-Nazi.
The data cache allowed the Daily Dot to discover not only websites that had been targeted with subpoenas by the FBI and others but trace the actions of prominent far-right figures such as Ali Alexander, who attempted to scrub his digital ties to dozens of domains relating to election fraud conspiracy theories in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
A real estate agent in Florida who was found to have registered numerous antisemitic domains also lost their job. A man who ran websites relating to the Proud Boys in Canada, where the far-right group is listed as a terrorist organization, was placed under investigation by his employer at a government-owned pipeline and energy company.
The Oath Keepers militia, which began using Epik following the failed insurrection, also had its data leaked on Sept. 27. Although those responsible did not claim affiliation with Anonymous, dates found within the data, which was given by the hackers to the journalism and transparency collective DDoSecrets, suggest the exposure could have been linked to Epik’s breach.
The Daily Dot was able to find at least 160 official government and military email addresses in a membership list compiled by the militia. Multiple investigations have been launched as a result of the leak. The New York Police Department (NYPD) announced last week that it had launched an internal review of two officers whose names were found in the breach.
The second release of Epik data resulted in the exposure of at least 59 API keys, which allow to securely communicate with one another, for services such as Twitter, Coinbase, and PayPal. Monster claimed during his live video conference with the public that someone had attempted to use his API key for Coinbase to steal $100,000.
It remains unclear what fallout will result from the third release as journalists and researchers struggle to sift through the enormous amounts of information already present in the previous two leaks.
Did Anonymous start as a Dem hacker operation or were they annexed later?
Another nothing burger.
Remember partisans never lie.
Like never?
He seems a little out there
“The data cache allowed the Daily Dot to discover not only websites that had been targeted with subpoenas by the FBI”
Your tax dollars at work. J Edgar was a gay tranny.
Creating yet another social media site is not the future of the new GOP.
There is a way but I’m not sure the GOP leadership is capable of understanding it.
Bootable disk images says they probably hacked the backup server. Those images should have been encrypted. I’m sure they’ll lock the gate after the horseys have all run off.
So far I am seeing the same story repeated over and over but not actually seeing an ground breaking revelations.
Seems more propaganda bluster then anything else.
Literally nothing lol
One of the days, a private party is going to track down hackers and start executing them. I’m not saying that’s right, but extrajudicial means are all that’s left when authorities refuse to administer justice.
far right
I’m so sick of reading that or something close to it.
I’m a bed-rock middle of the road person. I expect our
nation to be run by our Founding Principles.
That places me right in the middle of the spectrum, as
far as our national identity is concerned.
I’m a Conservative, and damned proud of it.
I would have enjoyed being in the presence of our
Founders. We may have argued at times, but we would
have been arguing about principles that mattered and
contributed toward a free and enterprising populace.
As far as I can tell, basically annexed. As with most any organization, their political leanings were probably somewhat diverse in the beginning. I seem to recall seeing quite a bit of anonymous videos on youtube in the last decade or so that did not seem leftist at all to me at the time, but that may not have been the same people either.
The globalists/leftists are VERY VERY GOOD at taking over organizations. They do it to everything and everyone. I suspect that behind it all is some very well practiced long-game techniques, and a loooooottttt of money (probably mostly foreign). I have no way of knowing this, but I think they play dirty and they are extremely stealthy about it, digging up dirt and intimidating anyone in an organization with non-kindred political stances, very methodically.
I think anonymous was originally more libertarian (or at least anti-authoritarian) moreso than they were left or right, but those things change.
The problem our side has with tech is very simple - the people who can do the nuts and bolts of tech simply HATE US, and, even if well paid, they will use their hate against us.
Don’t know an answer other than getting rid of Section 230 and breaking up the big monopolies, so we can at least have a level playing field.
...but I dream.
If we were smart, we’d honeypot them.
Every time they say “moderate.”
O’Sullivan’s Law states that any organization or enterprise that is not expressly right wing will become left wing over time. The law is named after British journalist John O’Sullivan.
My handy-dandy Newspeak media translation guide for political ideology labels:
Media labels vs. Reality:
Blue = Red
Socialist/Left-wing = Stalinist
Liberal = Marxist
Moderate/(Centrist) = Socialist
Conservative = Liberal
Far-Right = Moderate
Ultraright/Racist/Bigot = Conservative Mainstream
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