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gigabytes of email archives, chat logs, and a membership list. The data is also being disseminated by DDoSecrets, though the group restricted the list of members and files containing donor and finance information to journalists. The Oath
Keepers had been a customer of Epik's since January 2021, when
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On
September 13, the day the hacked data was released, Epik said in statements to news outlets that they were "not aware of any breach". When the company did not acknowledge the breach, the attackers vandalized Epik's support website. On September 15, the company sent an email to customers notifying
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militia. The hackers responsible for the Oath
Keepers leak did not claim any connection to Anonymous or draw any connection to the Epik breach, though some journalists have speculated that the leak may have been related or made possible by information from the Epik data. The Oath Keepers data
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described as being "like a late-night campfire chat, albeit with an element of the surreal." During the conference, Monster recited prayers to scare away demons, warned participants in the conference not to tamper with the hacked data due to it being "cursed", and spoke in friendly terms with
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predicted the hack would force far-right groups to find security providers outside of the United States, and said that the hack had "confirmed a lot of the details of the far-right ecosystem". Cybersecurity analyst and online extremism researcher Emily Crose said that the breach would likely
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similarly compared the data breach to the Panama Papers leak, stating "Like the Panama Papers, getting information out of the huge database and making sense of it is time-consuming, which may explain why coverage of the Epik hack lagged..." Data from the hack was used to show that
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Hackers identifying themselves as a part of
Anonymous announced on September 13, 2021 that they had gained access to large quantities of Epik data, including domain purchase and transfer details, account credentials and logins, payment history, employee emails, and unidentified
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Journalists and security researchers subsequently confirmed the veracity of the hack and the types of information that had been exposed. The data included in the leak appeared to have been exfiltrated in late
February 2021. The leak was later confirmed to include approximately
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records. It also included 843,000 transactions from a period of over ten years, and almost one million invoices. An engineer performing an initial impact assessment for an Epik customer said that Epik's "entire primary database", which contained account usernames, passwords,
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Epik submitted a data-breach notice in the state of Maine, in which they reported that 110,000 people had been affected by the breach, and that financial account and credit card data had been exposed. In a statement to
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reported that "Epik's security protocols have been the target of ridicule among researchers, who've marveled at the site's apparent failure to take basic security precautions". Epik had been storing passwords using
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The hack was described as "a
Rosetta Stone to the far-right", allowing researchers and journalists to connect links between various far-right websites, groups, and individuals who were using Epik's services.
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bureau, said, "Given Epik's boasts about security, and the scope of its web hosting, I would think it would be an FTC target, especially if the company was warned but failed to take protective action".
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exposed a wide range of information including personal information of customers, domain history and purchase records, credit card information, internal company emails, and records from the company's
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said of the hack, "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." Internet anthropologist
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Texas Right to Life organization, which allowed people to anonymously report suspected violators of the bill. The website, which moved to Epik after being denied services by
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intensify existing paranoia among far-right groups, who already felt like they were being surveilled after the
Capitol attack.
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and preservation requests were also found in the leaked data. Many of the data preservation requests appeared to be related to
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of hate groups", and said that researchers would be "in for the long haul" with the amount of data that had been exposed. The
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million unique email addresses, which belonged both to customers and non-customers whose data had been scraped from
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their website was taken offline after their hosting provider terminated service in the wake of the
Capitol attack.
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characterized as "possibly one of the strangest responses to a computer security incident in history", and which
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occurred in September and October 2021, targeting the American
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1912:Costa Rican ransomware attack
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2012:Trump campaign hack
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1795:EasyJet data breach
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608:The Washington Post
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1956:MOVEit data breach
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