US EditionHacktivist Dressed As Pink Power Ranger Deletes White Supremacist Dating Site Live During Conference
Ethical hacker Martha Root erased servers of three white supremacist sites live at a conference, exposing poor security and revealing user data from over 6,500 members.
- At the 39th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Martha Root deleted three neo-Nazi sites—WhiteDate, WhiteChild, and WhiteDeal—live onstage last week.
- Using realistic chatbots, Martha Root infiltrated the platforms for months, fooling administrators with LLM-powered accounts verified as 'white' to expose security flaws and gather user data.
- Investigators scraped and preserved account information and published parts on okstupid.lol while withholding emails and passwords for now; profiles included precise EXIF geolocation metadata and personal details from sites with a combined 6,500 users, 86 percent men and 14 percent women.
- Site administrators denounced the deletion as 'cyberterrorism', threatened repercussions, and said a social account was briefly removed then restored, while DDoSecrets reportedly holds the datasets and a viral clip circulated online, including a January 2, 2026 post.
- Dressed as the Pink Power Ranger, Root staged the spectacle and pulled the plug live with an onstage Python script, while TechCrunch and mainstream coverage highlighted far-right technical flaws.
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Pink Power Ranger Hacker Deletes White Supremacist Dating Site Live
In a dramatic display of digital vigilantism at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany, a hacker known as Martha Root, clad in a pink Power Ranger costume, orchestrated the live deletion of WhiteDate.net, a niche dating platform dubbed the “Tinder for Nazis.” Root, an investigative journalist and hacktivist, infiltrated the site over months, deploying artificial intelligence chatbots to engage users while exfiltrating sensitive dat…
At the annual Chaos Communication Congress hacker conference held in Hamburg, Germany, an anonymous hacker and activist took to the stage dressed as a character from the TV series "Power Rangers" and demonstrated to the audience how to hack into websites associated with neo-Nazis. Behind the disguise was Martha Roth (a fictitious name), who participated in the lecture alongside two journalists who published an investigation into her activities l…
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