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January 8, 2026
Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during hacker conference
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacist websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
TL;DR
- A hacker named Martha Root wiped three white supremacist websites (WhiteDate, WhiteChild, WhiteDeal) live at the Chaos Communication Congress.
- Root also published scraped data from WhiteDate, revealing poor security and precise user geolocation metadata.
- The administrator of the websites called the hack 'cyberterrorism'.
- The non-profit collective DDoSecrets received the leaked data and is offering access to verified journalists and researchers.
- Root, Hoffmann, and Fuchs claim to have identified the administrator as a woman from Germany.
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