Epik CEO eventually responded to the breach of his web hosting company in a 4+ hour long live video conference, where he prayed, rebuked demons, & warned that the hacked data had been cursed and could cause hard drives to burst into flames.https://t.co/iN06y6IGU6
— Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) September 29, 2021
One tweet in a long thread. From what I can tell, the EPIK user base seems to have been divided between grifters and would-be domestic terrorists — with considerable overlap between the two groups.
I don’t pretend to understand the techwork TechRadar presents here, but I grasp that it’s not looking good for Mr. Monster:
Hacktivist group Anonymous has shared server disk images extracted from controversial web hosting platform Epik, according to reports.
The latest leak compliments the 180GB of Epik’s data the group had shared earlier this month, in order to express its displeasure with the hosting provider serving as a refuge for hate mongers and extremists.
“A security researcher who was able to verify the extent of the leak to me described it as “a complete own.” At over 300 gigabytes worth of data, this leak is larger than the first,” tweeted Journalist Steve Monacelli, who broke the news of the first data release.
In a followup tweet, he added that the latest data dump is made up of fully bootable disk images of Epik servers, which also includes a wide range of passwords and API tokens…
Fame, of a fashion: “2021 Epik data breach” now has its own Wikipedia page.
germy
Spanky
Is it just me, or does Mister Monster remind you of Les Nessman? Appearance only, of course.
lowtechcyclist
[Nitpick alert]
Complements, dammit! Unless they mean to say the latest leak said flattering things about the earlier leak, which would be kinda weird.
[/Nitpick]
lowtechcyclist
Many decades ago, I used to know people who said shit like that, but at least they weren’t in charge of anything significant.
I don’t miss being around people who rebuke demons.
ETA: As soon as I posted this comment, “Whoever he was, that guy was nuts” appeared as the rotating tag line. Serendipity!
Fair Economist
The CEO of the main internet host for neoNazi/antivax/far right sites is named “Monster”?
We have to be living in a simulation.
Ken
@Spanky: Also, he may have tape lines on the floor marking his walls.
debbie
This is going to be so much fun!
eclare
@Spanky: I can see that…
Baud
Glad to see hackers working on the side of good for once.
debbie
@germy:
I was wondering what was up with Umbrella Man (if you remember him). He was identified back in June 2020 as a white Supremacist, but there’s still nothing about his arrest. ??♀️
germy
@debbie:
It seems like a million years ago.
sab
Totally OT . Akron Ohio has the last remaining Arthut Treachers Fish and Chips ( and good hush puppies.) I hadn ‘t thought about them in years. A sad little franchise that is no longer a franchise still trying to do their job, They do their job well. Good meal.
Joe Falco
Usually, October is a good time for Monsters.
bmoak
@sab:
I’m still pissed that Arthur Treacher’s died out and Long John Sawdust’s thrived. I thought there were a few more ATs around, thought. I last saw one in Atlantic City at (ironically) Trump Plaza about a decade ago, where it was sharing space with a Nathan’s
Rob
His last name really is Monster?! How appropriate.
WaterGirl
@Rob: I wonder if it’s possible to file for a name change for someone else without their knowledge. There are a number of people who deserve Monster as a last name
Edit: and I see that I am thinking too small. I can come up with a number of last names for the rapey I like beer judge.
Geminid
@sab: Hush puppies! I’d go there a lot.
WaterGirl
@Geminid: Good hush puppies can be hard to find.
I will also note that no one sent me a photo of hush puppies for the puppy post this afternoon.
Mike in NC
@sab: There used to be an Arthur Treacher’s at Fairfax Circle in NoVA and I would go there almost every Friday for a fish and chips fix. No longer there, I read.
H.E.Wolf
Neither food nor shoes? Opportunity missed! :)
Delk
Put them on your feet, give your toes a treat!
KrackenJack
@Spanky:
“As God is my witness, I thought our servers secured themselves!”
Renie
@germy: He shoots up a police station and gets one count of rioting? Let me guess he is white.
WaterGirl
@H.E.Wolf: You are so right!
BigJimSlade
Well, that oughta take care of it – situation resolved.
Starboard Tack
@bmoak: Decades ago I had food, hush puppies I think, at Long John’s that was so bad the memory makes me nauseous.
RepubAnon
@BigJimSlade: He repudiated Trump? Or some other demonic presence?
L85NJGT
Go big, or go home!
Bill Arnold
Here’s the dailydot story about the previous leak (linked in a tweet in that thread):
New leak of Epik data exposes company’s entire server – Anonymous is calling the second leak ‘the /b/ sides.’ (Mikael Thalen, Sep 29, 2021)
Have to say, the man knows nothing about such things, and by that I mean he knows nothing about either computer security(/infosec) or curses. “burst into flames” is absurdly flamboyant, and flamboyant is … expensive. (“Sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from bad luck”)
Anyway, I tip my hat to Anonymous .
Also, good for The ICIJ and their offshore leaks database, and those who leaked or acquired the information:
And to “donk enby”, who implemented/organized the scrape of Parler including a large number of incriminating videos after the 2021/01/06 insurrection and before Parler was (temporarily) shut down, Competent, so I would not be surprised if she has done other such things.
Delk
When I was a kid, the place where my parents bought my hush puppy shoes had one of those x-ray shoe fitting machines.
dopey-o
Not the guy you want to call for tech support. “Have you tried turning it off and back on? Put your hands on the keyboard and say 3 Hail Marys.”
”Still not booting? Put the computer in the sink and baptize it by full immersion.”
Hob
I have a subscription to an identity theft monitoring service that was a perk for buying some other thing at some point. Once in a while it lets me know if my email showed up in any recent hacks, usually for sites I haven’t used in many years. This week I got one that mentioned “Epik”. I thought, wtf is Epik? Looked at the site, seemed like some generic web hosting service I’ve never used, whatever. But the penny finally dropped and now I’m a little creeped out wondering why the hell my email address would be anywhere near any slimeballs who used Epik. Not that my email address itself is in any way secret, but still.
WaterGirl
@Hob: That is creepy.
Fester Addams
@Hob:
Me too (via the “Have I been Pwned” service) with the e-mail address I (used to) use for domain registrations. Word is the shitheads were scraping public domain whois data and adding it to their own (for reasons?).
patrick II
@dopey-o:
The local shoe store had one of those x-ray machines.. I’m surprised my feet don’t glow.
Ken
@patrick II: On the plus side, I’ve never been troubled with athlete’s foot.
Geminid
@Hob: I looked @emily gorcenski’s twitter feed last week because she writes about internet security. She said that the Epic hack exposes info from a lot of people who themselves had never used the service or participated in alt-right groups. I could not understand how but I do not generally understand this stuff anyway.
opiejeanne
@Spanky: No, George Goble. He really looks like him.
mvr
@Geminid:
Me too on getting the warning (I thinks form both Norton and the sit w pawned in the name) about my data and about seeing this explanation as to why it might be in Epic’s data even though a person has nothing to do with them. I don’t worry too much since everything about me was put on the dark web long ago so I had to change all of it, including my age.
opiejeanne
@patrick II: My dad wouldn’t let them use those x-ray machines at the Red Goose shoe store. He thought it was a really bad idea.
Central Planning
@sab: Salvatore’s, one of the local pizza chains, has a handful of stores that sells Arthur Treachers. I’ve been meaning to stop in for years but still haven’t.
lurker
@lowtechcyclist: it was flattery…
it was an inanimate object embodying a collection of data that was verbally praising another inanimate object embodying a related collection of data…
clearly you are making significant assumptions here…
I am not a crank…
;-)
lurker
@Fair Economist: another example of lazy script writers for this reality series