Huge hack reveals embarrassing details of who's behind Proud Boys and other far-right websites
Drew Harwell
Tue, September 21, 2021, 2:53 PM·8 min read
Epik long has been the favorite Internet company of the far-right, providing domain services to QAnon theorists, Proud Boys and other instigators of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol - allowing them to broadcast hateful messages from behind a veil of anonymity.
But that veil abruptly vanished last week when a huge breach by the hacker group Anonymous dumped into public view more than 150 gigabytes of previously private data - including user names, passwords and other identifying information of Epik's customers.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/huge-hack-reveals-embarrassing-details-185327291.html