Source: Washington Post
The
colossal hack of Epik, an Internet-services company popular with the far right,
has been called the “mother of all data lodes” for extremism researchers. Some
of those named in the data have already lost their jobs.
In the real
world, Joshua Alayon worked as a real estate agent in Pompano Beach, Fla.,
where he used the handle “SouthFloridasFavoriteRealtor” to urge buyers on
Facebook to move to “the most beautiful State.”
But online,
data revealed by the massive hack of Epik, an Internet-services company popular
with the far right, signaled a darker side. Alayon’s name and personal details
were found on invoices suggesting he had once paid for websites with names such
as racisminc.com, whitesencyclopedia.com, christiansagainstisrael.com and
theholocaustisfake.com.
The
information was included in a giant trove of hundreds of thousands of
transactions published this month by the hacking group Anonymous that exposed
previously obscure details of far-right sites and launched a race among
extremism researchers to identify the hidden promoters of online hate.
After
Alayon’s name appeared in the breached data, his brokerage, Travers Miran
Realty, dropped him as an agent, as first reported by the real estate news site
Inman. The brokerage’s owner, Rick Rapp, told The Washington Post that he
didn’t “want to be involved with anyone with thoughts or motives like that.”
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/25/epik-hack-fallout/
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