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Members of the hacktivist collective Anonymous claim to have hacked web registration company Epik, allegedly stealing “a decade’s worth of data,” including reams of information about its clients and their domains.
Epik is controversial, having been known to host a variety of rightwing clients, including ones that other web hosting providers, like GoDaddy, have dropped for various reasons. Its users have included conservative social media networks Parler and Gab, as well as conspiracy-theory-laden YouTube wannabe Bitchute and former President Trump fansite, The Donald. The company recently hosted prolifewhistleblower.com—the website designed to help people snitch on Texas residents who want abortions—but later forcibly removed the tip-collecting platform after determining that it had violated Epik’s terms by nonconsensually collecting third-party information.
Now, however, the apparent hacking of its platform means that all of Epik’s clients may soon have their backend information offered up to public scrutiny.
News of the apparent incident was first reported by Steven Monacelli, an independent journalist from Texas, who tweeted Monday that a “large dataset” belonging to the company appeared to have been stolen. Monacelli’s information comes from a 4Chan “press release” put out by the alleged hackers. In the release, the group claims to have stolen domain purchases and transfers, account credentials for “all Epik customers,” as well as a data dump from an Epik employee’s email inbox, among many other items.
Anonymous Claims to Have Stolen Huge Trove of Data From Epik, the Right-Wing’s Favorite Web Host
The controversial domain registrar, which has been known to host Nazis and other unfortunate groups, apparently just had all of its data boosted.
gizmodo.com
