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Huge hack reveals embarrassing details of who’s behind Proud Boys and other far-right websites
wapo ^ | 09/21/2021

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anonymous; bidenvoters; christophersteele; deepstate; epik; fbi; nsa; proudboys; qanon; twitter
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To: LibertyWoman
The woman, Ashley Babbitt, was shot and killed by a Capitol cop, not by an “attacker”. ?

The Capital marshmallow was the attacker.

41 posted on 09/21/2021 1:55:53 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (I had my emotional DNA done. Turns out I am a reincarnation of Subadar Prag Tewarri.)
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To: devane617

Remember when the media and the internet was against posting hacked materials? Yeah, me too.


42 posted on 09/21/2021 2:00:05 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: devane617

Epik hack - bump for later....


43 posted on 09/21/2021 2:00:46 PM PDT by indthkr
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To: ifinnegan
What are the “embarrassing details?”

The only ones I saw were the article itself - for sheer ugly gloating and sneering glee at a felony perpetrated against the authors' class enemies it'd be hard to beat outside the pages of Der Sturmer. The authors have outdone themselves, and that isn't even close to a compliment.

44 posted on 09/21/2021 2:01:49 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: srmanuel

I honestly have no idea what to believe anymore.

Hell, I don’t even understand what country I live in anymore, and I’m only in my 40’s.


45 posted on 09/21/2021 2:02:09 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: devane617

Never heard of it.


46 posted on 09/21/2021 2:05:43 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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To: devane617

no one has to hack any accounts to find out i’m on the right and i detest everything on the left. from the public sh*tting in the streets, to child molestation, to the nonstop espionage helping china gain anything and everything we have.

of course, the reason they want to find those people on the right is... the ‘investigators’ are on the rabid left and are working to destroy the country. going after patriots is in their playbook.


47 posted on 09/21/2021 2:07:17 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style )
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To: R_Kangel

Is there any evidence yet that a hack really took place and that this isn’t just “anonymous” sources? (am not going to click over to the washpo website).


48 posted on 09/21/2021 2:08:27 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: Mr. K

They started out as a pro-Western Civilization, traditional values drinking club led by Gavin McGinnes. Their (current? Recent past?) president, post-Gavin, was a brown Hispanic guy, so of course they’re white supremacists to Leftist extremists.


49 posted on 09/21/2021 2:12:21 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: devane617

Am I missing something? Why wouldn’t Epik have accounts for people like Hunter Bai-din, ‘Nursing Home Killer’ Cuomo, and every Leftist they could find?


50 posted on 09/21/2021 2:20:39 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: devane617

I’m not paying for the article. Who funded them?


51 posted on 09/21/2021 2:21:59 PM PDT by sauropod (Bidet was no prize before he put the “d” in “dementia.” - Schlichter)
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To: EEGator

that’s exactly why you can’t take anything at face value, this hack is supposed to obviously show the coordination of right wing groups that need to be cracked down on....


52 posted on 09/21/2021 2:23:40 PM PDT by srmanuel (`)
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To: devane617
Forget the dishonest Wapo article.

!. The leak probably happened back in February.

2. The Epik application contained many obvious vulnerabilities.

3. It was probably simply a trap for conservatives and others to be lured in and then have their personal information exposed.

53 posted on 09/21/2021 2:32:09 PM PDT by detective
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To: kinsman redeemer; gitmo; hoe_cake

Just get “NoScript and “Ghostery” addons.

With these the article text all displays. The only element that isn’t working correctly is the image.


54 posted on 09/21/2021 2:41:18 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: devane617

Brutal oppression is coming.

We have yet to grasp just how evil Democrats have become.


55 posted on 09/21/2021 2:46:39 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: srmanuel

include Charlottesville in their false flags. That was McAwful’s operation.


56 posted on 09/21/2021 3:01:14 PM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: devane617

It’s really easy to find the Trump supporters...just drive around and look for the fences, Gates and houses decorated with Trump signs and flags. You don’t need to hack anyone because there is no secret...


57 posted on 09/21/2021 3:14:05 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: ClearCase_guy

If our side didn’t have guns, they would just hunt us down like dogs.


Wait long enough without using them, and they will “hunt us down like dogs”. They are just testing the waters now to see how far they can go and what they can get away with.

What will it take?
Open borders? Nope.
Importing hundreds of thousands of unknown people into the US and giving them green cards? Nope.
Surrendering to terrorists? Nope.
Leaving US citizens in enemy hands? Nope.
Giving terrorists billions of dollars and advanced weapons? Nope.
Forcing people to take a experimental genetic serum against their will? Nope.
Crashing US credit, hyperinflation, border states taken over by Mexican cartels? Just what?


58 posted on 09/21/2021 3:16:07 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: devane617
There are 2 types of oath breakers/2%ers/Pride Boys:

1. Mildly successful, middle aged men who think they look tacticool running around the woods playing airsoft, and

2. Feds

59 posted on 09/21/2021 3:34:14 PM PDT by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
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To: hoe_cake

Try hitting the “Print” icon if there is one. Sometimes it will give a print preview of the whole article.


60 posted on 09/21/2021 3:38:57 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress" )
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