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By Rob Kuznia, Curt Devine and Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN

In October of 2018, a man walked into the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh and opened fire, killing 11 people — the worst anti-Semitic attack in US history. The suspected shooter had been a serial poster of genocidal rantings about Jews on a social platform called Gab.

Nearly five months later, another gunman strode into a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, and began shooting. When he was done, 51 people in two mosques were dead — the country’s worst mass shooting in modern history. The 28-year-old live-streamed the rampage on Facebook and posted a manifesto online about “white genocide.”

In both cases, mainstream tech companies scrambled to remove the content from the internet; Gab — a…

Jack Espinoza, a former Michigan chapter leader of the terroristic neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, registered the propaganda site on April 15, 2020, according to Hatewatch’s review of a trove of leaked data from Epik, a web hosting company popular with the extreme right for its demonstrated permissiveness of violent and/or hateful content. Espinoza’s site, which Hatewatch has elected not to name to reduce its visibility, has served as a propaganda outlet for proponents of white power accelerationism – a belief, increasingly popular among far-right extremists, that violence and terrorism are the sole means to achieve their political goal of an all-white ethnostate. Among the extremists Espinoza platformed on his website were the National Socialist Order, a group founded by…

The credit card numbers and online activity of people frequenting several far-right websites have been compromised after the Anonymous hacktivist collective breached Epik. Epik is a web-hosting company known for serving groups such as the Oath Keepers and social media networks Gab and Parler.

After a massive data dump by Anonymous, users of websites hosted by Epik were notified their credit card numbers and other personal information may have been compromised. In a breach notification report to the state of Maine filed on Sept. 20, Epik’s attorney said 110,000 people were affected by the data breach.

In addition to exposed credit card numbers, internet investigators have been combing through the data dump to “out” people who have expressed supposed white supremacist and far-fight views…

The credit card numbers and online activity of people frequenting several far-right websites have been compromised after the Anonymous hacktivist collective breached Epik. Epik is a web-hosting company known for serving groups such as the Oath Keepers and social media networks Gab and Parler.

After a massive data dump by Anonymous, users of websites hosted by Epik were notified their credit card numbers and other personal information may have been compromised. In a breach notification report to the state of Maine filed on Sept. 20, Epik’s attorney said 110,000 people were affected by the data breach.

In addition to exposed credit card numbers, internet investigators have been combing through the data dump to “out” people who have expressed…