Hacker group Anonymous dumps 150 gigabytes of data including names, passwords and home addresses of far-right website administrators in what experts are calling the 'Panama Papers of hate groups'

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 intrusion targeted Epik, a Washington-based domain registrar that provides a safe haven to far-right websites, some of whom had been turned away from more mainstream web hosting services.

The 150 gigabytes of data are a 'who's who' of Internet - and real-life - trolls. Epik has hosted QAnon home base 8chan, neo-Nazi news site The Daily Stormer and the far-right social media platforms Gab and Parler.

Experts say that the vast amount of data could take years to sift through.

'It's massive. It may be the biggest domain-style leak I've seen and, as an extremism researcher, it's certainly the most interesting,' Elon University computer science professor Megan Squire told the Washington Post.

'It's an embarrassment of riches - stress on the embarrassment.'

The breach was first reported by freelance reporter Steven Monacelli on September 13.

Earlier this month, Epik briefly hosted the website ProLifeWhistleblower.com, which was removed by GoDaddy because it asked for the names of doctors who performed abortions in defiance of Texas's new restrictive pro-life law.

Epik was founded in 2009 by Rob Monster, who has defended his work as keeping the internet free and open.

The data leak revealed the lack of cybersecurity undergirding Epik, which some say should have known better considering the sensitive material it hosts.

Anonymous made the data available for download with a note saying it would help researchers trace the ownership and management of 'the worst trash the Internet has to offer.'

The files include years of website purchase records, internal company emails and customer account credentials that reveal who administers some of the biggest far-right websites in the world.

The data includes client names, home addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and passwords.

Ali Alexander, an activist who organized one of the rallies that led to the January 6 Capitol riot, tried to hide his creation of 'Stop the Steal' websites after the riot.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10015763/Anonymous-hackers-dump-150-GIGABYTES-names-passwords-addresses-far-right-website-admins.html

Former GOP Sen. Jeff Flake back in the Capitol again today. Tells me he’s meeting with his old colleagues to discuss his nomination for ambassador to Turkey.

https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1440710265276801032

Moment GOP candidate for Nevada Lieutenant Governor is dragged out of meeting and shoved through a metal detector while protesting county commission's decision to declare COVID-19 misinformation a public health crisis

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10015585/Nevada-Lt-Gov-hopeful-violently-thrown-metal-detector-meeting-COVID-19.html

Politico Reporter Confirms Emails From Hunter Biden Laptop

https://www.mediaite.com/news/politico-confirms-emails-from-hunter-biden-laptop/

Trump files $100 million suit against niece, New York Times over bombshell tax story

In a statement, Mary Trump called her uncle desperate and said, “I think he is a loser, and he is going to throw anything against the wall he can."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-files-100-million-suits-against-niece-new-york-times-n1279801?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

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If I find more, I'll drop 'em here.

Sen. Mitt Romney on Trump’s influence on the 2022 midterms: “I thought he was going to lose the first time and win the second time. So I’ve been 100% wrong, so I’m not going to make predictions on his influence on the races.”

Asked if Trump should run again, Romney says “that’s his decision” but adds, “I obviously would prefer a different candidate.”

https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1440718443280408582

The list of Dem lawmakers sitting down with Biden today, according to a person familiar with the meetings

https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1440720398220288004/photo/2

Abolish the FBI

How much more do we need to learn about 2016 to realize the agency is a disaster?

In ignoring the latest John Durham indictment, most of the media and official Washington are ignoring the elephant between its lines: the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Mr. Durham, the special counsel appointed to investigate the government’s handling of the Russia collusion mess, levels a single criminal charge against Michael Sussmann, then a lawyer for the Democrat-linked firm Perkins Coie. In delivering to the FBI fanciful evidence of Trump-Russia collusion a few weeks before the 2016 election, Mr. Sussmann is alleged to have lied to the FBI’s chief lawyer, James Baker, claiming he was acting on his own behalf and not as a paid agent of the Clinton campaign.

Already you might be rolling your eyes. Mr. Durham provides ample reason in his own indictment for why the FBI would have known exactly whom Mr. Sussmann was working for. If Mr. Sussmann didn’t lie at the time, Mr. Baker may have lied since about what transpired between him and Mr. Sussmann. Either way, we are free to suspect the FBI would have found it useful to be protected from inconvenient knowledge about the Clinton campaign’s role.

The same FBI then was busy ignoring the political antecedents of the Steele dossier, also financed by Mr. Sussmann’s law firm on behalf of the Clinton campaign, information that the FBI would shortly withhold from a surveillance court in pursuit of a warrant to spy on Trump pilot fish Carter Page.

Mr. Durham, in describing the Sept. 19, 2016, meeting with Mr. Baker, suggests that a properly informed FBI might have thought twice before opening an investigation into Mr. Sussmann’s phony story about the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank. This is a way also of saying the FBI might have found it harder to proceed without the political deniability that Mr. Sussmann’s alleged statement provided.

At this late date, none of this can be consumed without recognizing that the FBI was already hip-deep in the 2016 election. It began a few weeks earlier with Director James Comey’s insubordinate, improper (according to the Justice Department’s own inspector general) intervention in the Hillary email case. We learned much later that Mr. Comey justified this unprecedented action by referring to secret Russian “intelligence” that his FBI colleagues considered a red herring and possible Russian disinformation. Your eyes should really be rolling now.

Mr. Comey thereupon created the preposterous jam for himself when new information surfaced in the Hillary case, which led him to reopen the case shortly before Election Day and likely tipped the race to Mr. Trump. Of course the “new information” turned out to be a nothingburger. Worse, the information had been sitting unnoticed in the FBI’s hands for weeks.

These antic actions, along with the subsequent FBI leakfest aimed at undermining the president it just helped to elect, might be written off as a singular consequence of Mr. Comey’s overweened sense of importance.

But this doesn’t explain the FBI’s top counterintelligence deputy, Peter Strzok, engaging in compromising political banter on an FBI network while playing a central role in the FBI’s most politically sensitive investigations. It doesn’t explain FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith’s criminal act of falsifying agency submissions to the surveillance court.

Ask yourself: In what way, in anyone’s memory, has the FBI covered itself in glory? The Larry Nassar case, in which it failed to pursue a serial abuser of teenage gymnasts? The Noor Salman case, in which it trumped up a failed prosecution of the innocent and abused wife of the Orlando nightclub shooter? The Hatfill case, in which it attempted to railroad an innocent scientist over the 2001 anthrax attacks?

Ironically, Hollywood is now the FBI’s biggest devotee because the agency’s screw-ups are fodder for its best movies. The FBI’s role in the assassination of Black Panther Fred Hampton was the subject of “Judas and the Black Messiah.” Its persecution of an innocent security guard in the Atlanta Olympics bombing was the theme of “ Richard Jewell. ” Its cosseting of the criminal psychopath Whitey Bulger was a central pillar of the Johnny Depp film “Black Mass.”

The FBI’s last extended run of good publicity, aimed at helping live down the smell of J. Edgar Hoover, came more than 50 years ago thanks to Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and his weekly show on ABC, “The F.B.I.,” which went off the air in 1974.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/abolish-fbi-durham-indictment-russia-collusion-clinton-sussman-strzok-comey-corruption-11632256384

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