Posted on 09/21/2021 1:15:51 PM PDT by devane617
Epik long has been the favorite Internet company of the far-right, providing domain services to QAnon theorists, Proud Boys and other instigators of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — allowing them to broadcast hateful messages from behind a veil of anonymity.
But that veil abruptly vanished last week when a huge breach by the hacker group Anonymous dumped into public view more than 150 gigabytes of previously private data — including user names, passwords and other identifying information of Epik’s customers.
Extremism researchers and political opponents have treated the leak as a Rosetta Stone to the far-right, helping them to decode who has been doing what with whom over several years. Initial revelations have spilled out steadily across Twitter since news of the hack broke last week, often under the hashtag #epikfail, but those studying the material say they will need months and perhaps years to dig through all of it.
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“A lot of research begins with naming names,” Best said. “There’s a lot of optimism and feeling of being overwhelmed, and people knowing they’re in for the long haul with some of this data.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Oh so Twitter is no ok with leaking hacked info. Interesting.
Felonies to hack computers.
Proud Boys are real?
It sounds like a gay infiltration made up by the Fibbies.
There is no such thing as ‘QAnon’.
Select All and Copy.
Neat hack tip. I’ll try it even though it will copy a billion bites of adds and banners. Thanks.
What’s the article say? I don’t have a subscription and can’t read anything.
If all conservatives stopped using Amazon the Bezos may get the message.
they just show up as links.
NBD
“a huge number of individuals have had their private information leaked”
...me
Is the Jan 6 protest the one where stores were burned and looted?
The woman, Ashley Babbitt, was shot and killed by a Capitol cop, not by an “attacker”. ?
What are the “embarrassing details?”
The entire article can be read here:
No, you must be thinking of DOZENS of other protests where authorities did allow BLM and Antifa to burn and loot.
My thought too. Wishful thinking by the author i imagine.
name, address, credit card info..etc
‘Wishful thinking by the author i imagine.’
No, real...I’m in the middle of this mess....name, address credit card info/payment info. Much to change and some I can’t
Maybe it’s not a hack at all, but one giant misinformation event....
Make up information about rightwing groups which shows them cooperating in so called “ALT Right” activities as justification to crack down on “extremists”....
I’m prepared to believe a lot of false flag attempts are being carried out by the Feds....
Just in the last year, we’ve had the fake kidnapping of Gretchen Whitmer, the fake Insurrection on 1/6, the staged protest this past weekend, etc....
Carry that into the cyber world and this is the type of thing you get....coincidence ??? I don’t believe in them.
Called the “Deep State”.
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