A dramatic act of digital protest unfolded last week when a hacktivist publicly dismantled several white supremacist websites during a live presentation at a major hacker conference in Germany. The takedown happened in real time, in front of a cheering audience — and the affected sites have yet to reappear online.
The hacker, known by the alias Martha Root, took the stage at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg wearing a Pink Ranger costume. At the conclusion of the talk, Root remotely deleted the servers behind three extremist platforms: WhiteDate, WhiteChild, and WhiteDeal.
The presentation was delivered alongside investigative journalists Eva Hoffmann and Christian Fuchs, who had previously exposed the inner workings of these platforms in a report published by a German newspaper last year. Their research provided context for how these sites operated and who they targeted.
Each of the now-defunct platforms served a different purpose within white supremacist circles. WhiteDate functioned as a matchmaking service for extremists, WhiteChild promoted itself as a sperm and egg donor matching site restricted to white users, and WhiteDeal acted as a job marketplace catering exclusively to racist ideology.
Administrators behind the sites acknowledged the breach on social media, condemning the act and calling it “cyberterrorism.” They also alleged that their social media account was briefly deleted during the incident before being restored.
Beyond disabling the servers, Root also released a trove of data allegedly collected from WhiteDate. According to the hacker, the site suffered from severe security flaws. Publicly accessible images reportedly contained embedded location data, exposing users’ precise coordinates. Root mocked the irony of extremist rhetoric paired with what they described as amateur-level cybersecurity practices.
The leaked material includes user profiles containing names, photos, ages, self-descriptions, locations, language preferences, and other personal details. Root stated that private messages, passwords, and email addresses were not included at this stage.
The data suggests WhiteDate had more than 6,500 users, overwhelmingly male. Root highlighted the imbalance as evidence of the platform’s hollow claims of community-building.
According to the conference talk summary, Root gained access using AI-powered chatbots that were able to bypass the sites’ verification systems by falsely qualifying as “white.”
The nonprofit transparency group DDoSecrets confirmed it has received roughly 100 gigabytes of data from the three platforms. While the files have not been publicly released, the organization is allowing vetted journalists and researchers to request controlled access.
As of now, the administrators behind the sites have not issued a detailed response, and the platforms remain offline — marking one of the most public and theatrical hacktivist actions seen in recent years.
