Anonymous announces stealing 10 years of data from right-wing purveyor hosting operator Epik



It turns out that Anonymous , an anonymous group of hackers, has declared that it has stolen business data, including customer information, from American domain registrar and hosting operator Epik. Anonymous says it will release these data free of charge.

Anonymous: Group Alleges It Hacked Far-Right Web Host Epik
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/anonymous-hack-far-right-web-host-epik/

BREAKING: DNS and host provider Epik Software hacked by Anonymous --Malcontent News
https://malcontentment.com/breaking-dns-and-host-provider-epik-software-hacked-by-anonymous/

Independent journalist Stephen Monasseri said on September 14, 2021, 'It's a scoop. Anonymous, the'extreme hacker group', hosts the Texas Republican Party and abortion sites. I have accessed a large dataset of '.'



Epik is known to have been used by Gab , which was excluded from the main service by supporting the far-right extremists, and 8chan , which was excluded from the main service by white supremacism. It is a hosting company. In September 2021, it was also reported that GoDaddy, the world's largest domain registrar company with the largest number of domain registrations, was registering the domain of the information provision recruitment site of the anti-abortion group that refused the service.

GoDaddy, the world's largest number of registered domains, disconnects the 'abortion notification site' --GIGAZINE



In its announcement , Anonymous claimed to have stolen '10 years of data' from Epik, including Epik's transaction history, customer information, Git repositories for internal applications, and 500,000. It is said that it contains 35GB of data such as the above private key and e-mails exchanged by employees.

According to an IT news site, Gizmodo , a spokeswoman for Epik said, 'We are not aware of any breaches. We take the protection of your data very seriously and investigate this allegation. It is inside, 'he said, denying the leakage of data.

In response to a series of tweets by Monasseri, who first reported this incident, Epik CEO Rob Monster said, 'I don't know anything about you. I know. You and I talked about a trivial story about Epik on the phone last week for about 15 minutes. You then published a pageless article that didn't make any sense. ' He commented and expressed his willingness to question the reliability of Mr. Monasseri's information.

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