The information was passed to Equifax, which sold it to ICE and other police agencies.
Author: Drew Harwell
Pranksters have already defaced Trump’s new social network
The site, Truth Social, said it reserves the right to ban users and safeguard itself from lawsuits with Section 230 protections — the same measures Trump has complained about during his long and bitter battle with Big Tech.
Fallout begins for far-right trolls who trusted Epik to keep their identities secret
The colossal hack of Epik, an Internet-services company popular with the far right, has been called the “mother of all data lodes” for extremism researchers. Some of those named in the data have already lost their jobs.
Huge hack reveals embarrassing details of who’s behind Proud Boys and other far-right websites
Epik long has been the favorite Internet company of the far-right, providing domain services to QAnon theorists, Proud Boys and other instigators of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol .