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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…

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.

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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.