Over 200,000 files and databases of user, registration, forwarding and other information behind the "privacy" web hosting and registrar service Epik, known for hosting fascist, white supremacist and other right-wing content as well as harassment and doxing websites. Contents
Original torrent
The original torrent is presented here as-is and was created and released by the source independent of Distributed Denial of Secrets. Due to its size, it's incompatible with most torrent clients and many users will have difficulty downloading the data.
Contents
According to the hackers, the contents include:
- Domain purchases
- Domain transfers
- WHOIS history
- DNS changes
- Email forwards, catch-alls, etc.
- Payment history
- Account credentials
- Over 500,000 private keys
- An employee's mailbox
- Git repositories
- /home/ and /root/ directories of a core system
- Bootable disk images
Research
- 'Absolutely bonkers': Inside Infowars' money machine (Hatewatch)
- Infowars’ Alex Jones says he lives ‘in hell,’ texts show (Hatewatch)
- "The fascist side of the Internet" gets hacked: Proud Boys, QAnon websites fall victim to Anonymous (Salon)
- Where the despairing log on, and learn ways to die (New York Times)
- Huge hack reveals embarrassing details of who’s behind Proud Boys and other far-right websites (Washington Post)
- Anonymous releases data on Texas GOP in latest Epik hack dump (Daily Dot)Epik, l’hébergeur Web favori de l’extrême droite américaine, victime d’un piratage d’ampleur (Le Monde)
- ‘Worst I’ve seen in 20 years’: How the Epik hack reveals every secret the far-right tried to hide (Daily Dot)
- After the Capitol riot, ‘Stop the Steal’ organizer Ali Alexander was scrambling to hide his digital footprint (Daily Dot)
- Fallout begins for far-right trolls who trusted Epik to keep their identities secret (Washington Post)
Aftermath
- Hosting company used by extremists received $3 million in bitcoin after 2021 hack (Southern Poverty Law Center)
- Far-right domain hosting service Epik sued for embezzling client funds (The Daily Dot)
References
Editor Notes
The files were initially released by the hackers independent of DDoSecrets and are presented as-is.