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Entities using the name and iconography of Anonymous (EUTNAIOA) claim to have leaked server disk images extracted from Epik – the controversial US outfit that has provided services to far-right orgs such as the Oath Keepers and Gab, provided a home to social-network-for-internet-outcasts Parler, and hosted hate-hole 8chan.

Epik made a virtue of providing such services. In a blog post defending its decision to operate Gab’s domain name after GoDaddy declined to do so, Epik CEO Rob Monster argued it was a free speech issue, and said deplatforming companies is both censorship and a violation of inalienable rights.

EUTNAIOA earlier leaked 180GB of data it said it siphoned from Epik servers, plenty of it detailing the activities of far-right groups such as The Proud Boys and the…

Real estate agent fired after Epik hack shows he allegedly owned racist and antisemitic websites(iStock)

A South Florida real estate agent was fired by his broker after being named in a massive leak of hacked data from Epik, a domain registrar that hosts websites with far-right, neo-Nazi, and other extremist content.

Pompano Beach agent Joshua Alayon allegedly tried to register domains that include racisminc.com, holocaust-truth.com, theholocaustisfake.com, whitechristianrepublican.com and whitesencyclopedia.com, Inman and the Washington Post reported. Alayon denied owning theracisminc.com site, which posts racist memes, but didn’t answer a question about who owned it.

Alayon hung his license with Parkland-based Travers Miran Realty for about eight months. Broker and owner Rick…

Epik, a Sammamish-based hosting company known for its hosting of several controversial websites, was reportedly hacked last week.

Social media site Gab returns with help from Seattle-area startup

Epik has often been viewed as a refuge for websites that have run afoul of their previous providers, having briefly hosted the likes of 8chan, the Daily Stormer, and the Texas Right to Life group, among others. While the company no longer hosts those sites, its recent hack — alleged to be the work of Anonymous — is being described by some as “a Rosetta Stone to the far-right,” according to a report from the Washington Post.

“It’s massive,” Elon University researcher Megan Squire told the Post. “It may be the biggest domain-style leak I’ve seen and,…

Emma Best, co-founder of Distributed Denial of Secrets, a nonprofit whistleblower group, said some researchers call the Epik hack “the Panama Papers of hate groups,” a comparison to the leak of more than 11 million documents that exposed a rogue offshore finance industry. And, like the Panama Papers, scouring the files is labor intensive, with payoffs that could be months away.

Hacktivist group Anonymous has reportedly obtained gigabytes of data from web hosting company Epik and leaked decades of data online.

In addition to being a web host, Epik also provides its customers with domain names and DNS services. However, like bulletproof hosting companies, it has a reputation for providing web space to many clients who struggle to find hosting elsewhere due to the nature of their content.