Anonymous hackers dump 150 GIGABYTES of names, passwords and addresses of far-right website admins

Hacker group Anonymous has released a massive trove of names, passwords and addresses of far-right website administrators that experts are calling the 'Panama Papers of hate groups.' The Anonymous data breach targeted Epik, a domain registrar known for hosting websites that promote far-right conspiracy theories like QAnon. Above, a QAnon rally in New York in 2020 Epik was also used by Ali Alexander, a far-right activist who reportedly tried to hide his involvement in websites promoting January 6 protests before the Capitol riot broke out The breach was first reported by freelance journalist Steven Monacelli on September 13. A former Epik employee told Bloomberg Businessweek that he quit after Monster, the company's founder, opened a meeting by telling his staff to watch a video of the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand that killed 51 people, saying that the video would prove they were fake. 'Given Epik's boasts about security, and the scope of its Web hosting, I would think it would be an FTC target, especially if the company was warned but failed to take protective action,' David Vladeck, a former head of the FTC's consumer protection bureau, told the Washington Post.