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.
“This dataset is all that’s needed to trace actual ownership and management of the fascist side of the Internet that has eluded researchers, activists, and, well, just about everybody,” the release claims.
www.dailydot.com
www.theguardian.com
deadline.com
