{"id":214858,"date":"2026-01-05T18:57:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/05\/hacktivist-deletes-white-supremacist-websites-live-on-stage-during-hacker-conference-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T18:57:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:57:31","slug":"hacktivist-deletes-white-supremacist-websites-live-on-stage-during-hacker-conference-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/05\/hacktivist-deletes-white-supremacist-websites-live-on-stage-during-hacker-conference-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A hacktivist remotely wiped three white supremacist websites live on stage during their talk at a hacker conference last week, with the sites yet to return online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pseudonymous hacker, who goes by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/chaos.social\/@back2theRoot\" target=\"_blank\">Martha Root<\/a> \u2014 dressed as Pink Ranger from the Power Rangers \u2014 deleted the servers of WhiteDate, WhiteChild, and WhiteDeal in real-time <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/media.ccc.de\/v\/39c3-the-heartbreak-machine-nazis-in-the-echo-chamber\" target=\"_blank\">at the end of a talk<\/a> at the annual Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Root gave the talk alongside journalists <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zeit.de\/autoren\/H\/Eva_Hoffmann\" target=\"_blank\">Eva Hoffmann<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zeit.de\/autoren\/F\/Christian_Fuchs\/index\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Fuchs<\/a>, who <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zeit.de\/gesellschaft\/2025-10\/whitedate-rechtsextremismus-datingportal-white-supremacy-schleswig-holstein\/seite-2\" target=\"_blank\">wrote an article<\/a> about the hacked sites for the German weekly paper Die Zeit in October.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of this writing WhiteDate, which Hoffmann described as a \u201cTinder for Nazis\u201d; WhiteChild, a site that claimed to match white supremacists\u2019 sperm and egg donors; and WhiteDeal, a sort-of Taskrabbit-esque labor marketplace for racists, are all offline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The administrator of the three websites confirmed the hack on their social media accounts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey publicly delete all my websites while the audience rejoices. This is cyberterrorism,\u201d the <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/whitedatenet\/status\/2007852479179112852\" target=\"_blank\">administrator wrote on X<\/a> on Sunday, vowing repercussions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The administrator also claimed that Root deleted their X account before it was restored.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u203c\ufe0fA German hacker known as &#8220;Martha Root&#8221; dressed as a pink Power Ranger and deleted a white supremacist dating website live onstage<\/p>\n<p>This happened during the recent CCC conference.<\/p>\n<p>Martha had infiltrated the site, ran her own AI chatbot to extract as much information from users\u2026 <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vpTEoFR8JR\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/vpTEoFR8JR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 International Cyber Digest (@IntCyberDigest) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IntCyberDigest\/status\/2007183888377118750?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">January 2, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Root also published the data allegedly scraped from WhiteDate online.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hacker said that they scraped WhiteDate\u2019s public data and found \u201cpoor cybersecurity hygiene that would make even your grandma\u2019s AOL account blush.\u201d Root said that users\u2019 images included precise geolocation metadata that \u201cpractically hands out home addresses with a side of awkward selfies.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cImagine calling yourselves the \u2018master race\u2019 but forgetting to secure your own website \u2014 maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination,\u201d Root wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The leaked data includes users\u2019 profiles with name, pictures, description, age, location (both containing precise coordinates and user-set country and state), gender, language, race, and other personal information that users uploaded. Root wrote on the site that \u201cfor now\u201d there are no emails, passwords or private conversations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the leaked data, WhiteData had more than 6,500 users, of which 86% men and 14% women. \u201cA gender ratio that makes the Smurf village look like a feminist utopia,\u201d Root wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Root infiltrated the sites using AI chatbots that bypassed verification processes and were verified as \u201cwhite,\u201d according to the talks\u2019 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/events-ccc-de.translate.goog\/congress\/2025\/hub\/en\/event\/detail\/the-heartbreak-machine-nazis-in-the-echo-chamber?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp\" target=\"_blank\">abstract<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DDoSecrets, a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ddosecrets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">nonprofit collective<\/a> that stores leaked datasets in the public interest, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/ddosecrets.com\/post\/3mb5t6udmx32d\" target=\"_blank\">announced that it has received<\/a> \u201cfiles and user information\u201d from the three white supremacist websites. The collective, which calls this release \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/ddosecrets.com\/article\/whiteleaks\" target=\"_blank\">WhiteLeaks<\/a>,\u201d has not publicly released the data, but is instead asking verified journalists and researchers to request access to the full 100 gigabyte dataset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The administrator of the three websites did not immediately respond to TechCrunch\u2019s request for comment sent to an email address shown during the conference talk. TechCrunch also sent an email to an address that appears on the public domain records of two of the three websites. The person behind that address also did not immediately respond to our email.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Root, Hoffmann, and Fuchs claim to have identified the real identity of the websites\u2019 administrator as a woman from Germany. TechCrunch could not independently confirm the identity of the administrator.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/01\/05\/hacktivist-deletes-white-supremacist-websites-live-on-stage-during-hacker-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hacktivist remotely wiped three white supremacist websites live on stage during their talk at a hacker conference last week, with the sites yet to return online. 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