> At a Glance
> – Martha Root, dressed as the Pink Power Ranger, deleted three white-supremacist dating & services sites live at Hamburg’s Chaos Communication Congress
> – The sites-WhiteDate, WhiteChild, WhiteDeal-remain offline as of press time
> – Root also posted a 6,500-user data trove scraped via AI chatbots that bypassed “white” verification
> – Why it matters: Public takedown exposes both lax security of hate platforms and rising hacktivist tactics against extremist infrastructure
A cosplaying hacker Martha Root ended a conference talk by remotely wiping three racist websites in real time, proving the sites’ security was as flimsy as their ideology.
The Live Hack
Root, wearing a Pink Power Ranger suit, joined journalists Eva Hoffmann and Christian Fuchs on stage at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany. After detailing months of infiltration, she executed the deletion scripts; the domains WhiteDate, WhiteChild, and WhiteDeal went dark within seconds.
The audience cheered while the sites’ administrator watched helplessly, later calling the act “cyberterrorism” on X.
The Breach Details
Root deployed AI chatbots that passed the platforms’ “white” verification checks. Once inside, she:
- Scraped public profiles containing names, photos, ages, gender, language, race, self-written bios, and precise GPS coordinates
- Found geolocation metadata that “practically hands out home addresses”
- Compiled a 100 GB archive now held by DDoSecrets under the label WhiteLeaks
| Site | Users | Gender Split | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| WhiteDate | 6,500 | 86% men, 14% women | Offline |
| WhiteChild | – | – | Offline |
| WhiteDeal | – | – | Offline |
The administrator confirmed the hack on social media and vowed repercussions; Root’s own X account was briefly suspended then restored.
Data Exposure Scope
The leaked dataset omits emails, passwords, and private chats “for now,” Root noted, but every public profile field is searchable. DDoSecrets is vetting journalists and researchers who request access.
Root mocked the operator in her release:
> “Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website-maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination.”
TechCrunch could not independently verify the administrator’s identity, though the presenters claim she is a German woman.
Key Takeaways
- Three white-supremacist services erased in front of a cheering hacker crowd
- 6,500 WhiteDate users exposed by metadata-rich uploads
- Operator brands incident cyberterrorism; no legal response yet public
- Dataset sits with DDoSecrets, limiting circulation to vetted researchers
The stunt spotlights both extremist platforms’ poor security and hacktivists’ appetite for theatrical disruption.
