The profiles of thousands of people who joined a white supremacist dating site have been leaked online after it was hacked.
An anonymous hacker broke into WhiteDate and deleted it – but not before downloading the 100 gigabytes of data behind it.
Livestreaming the moment while dressed as a pink Power Ranger, the German web activist – styling herself as ‘Martha Root’ – said the site’s security was so weak it ‘would make even your grandma’s AOL account blush’.
She has since extracted 8,000 profiles and posted them online – though the total number of profiles in the leaked data is believed to be much higher.
Information including location, username, age and personal bio are included, as well as photos in some cases – though email addresses and private messages have not yet been released publicly.
Most profiles were based in the US, with around 400 in the UK, similar numbers in France and Germany and others spread around Europe.
It’s not clear if the hacker drew proportionately from the various countries in the data or if some are over-represented due to the way the data was mined.
One profile belonging to a 27-year-old from Barnard Castle, County Durham, named Kieran, stresses his wish to find ‘a woman who understands the threat to our race’.
Rather than a hankering for romance, Kieran said his desire was fuelled by having ‘watched our citys [sic] become harbors of degeneracy and foreign cultures’.
A 31-year-old Wolverhampton local calling himself Mr Stone wrote: ‘I’m wanting to join this site as I’m sick of logging into other Christian sites and there being no option to specify that you don’t care about blacks or other species of human if you can call them that.’
The site’s members were overwhelmingly male, with Root saying its gender ratio ‘makes the Smurf village look like a feminist utopia’.
A 55-year-old Londoner, KK, said she loves ‘collecting organic seeds’ and wants a ‘Mr Right’ who knows politicians are ‘controlled by the same people’.
Despite joining a site designed to ‘preserve the white race’, 30-year-old Swansea local, Minty95, said she ‘does not wish to procreate’.
The full data trove – including profile photos, many of which contain metadata revealing where they were taken – has been made available to verified journalists and researchers.
Root says she has identified the company behind as a Paris-based firm.
These claims could not be immediately verified, though in 2019 the site registered the trademark ‘White Deal, Hire European Staff’.
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