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Let's get the facts straight: - The Epik leak contains 15 million records [1], including scraped data of people who have never had any relation to Epik whatsoe
by veeti 5y ago
Let's get the facts straight:
- The Epik leak contains 15 million records [1], including scraped data of people who have never had any relation to Epik whatsoever.
- Epik has operated as a seemingly ordinary domain registrar since 2009, and controls over half a million domains [2]. Their rise to infamy over far right wing hosting did not occur until around 2018 [3]. Despite this, the leak contains their entire historical user database.
This is a case of doxxing millions of innocent people to expose a couple of assholes. The way I see it, if you celebrate this hack, you truly are a scumbag no better than any of the people behind "theholocaustisfake.com".
[1] https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Epik https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Epik
[2] https://www.domainstate.com/top-registrars.html https://www.domainstate.com/top-registrars.html
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epik_(company)#Hosting_of_far-right_and_illicit_content https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epik_(company)#Hosting_of_far-...
- iJohnDoe 5y agoThis is actually pretty accurate summary of the situation. Doxxing people is never cool. It’s a great responsibility no one should have, especially when innocent people can get hurt in the process. Mistakes in correlating the data have already been made.