During the annual Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany, a hacktivist known as Martha Root remotely erased three white supremacist websites in real time, leaving them offline. The websites affected are WhiteDate, WhiteChild, and WhiteDeal, which have been confirmed to be non-operational by their administrator.
Root delivered a talk alongside journalists Eva Hoffmann and Christian Fuchs, who previously reported on these sites for the German publication Die Zeit. The administrator of the websites expressed outrage on social media, branding the incident as "cyberterrorism" and promising consequences for the hacker.
The hack involved the publication of data allegedly scraped from WhiteDate, revealing significant lapses in cybersecurity. Root highlighted that users’ images contained geolocation metadata, potentially exposing their home addresses. While the leaked data included various personal details such as names, ages, and locations, it reportedly did not include emails or passwords.