2025 was a tough 12 months—business layoffs, chaotic tariffs, promising video games dropping like flies, and an entire zoo of AI nonsense. And whereas none of that is given me a lot in the best way of hope for 2026, I’ve, a minimum of, had a smile placed on my face by at the moment’s information: A hacker, dressed because the pink Energy Ranger, deleted a trio of white supremacist web sites reside on stage.
You’ll be able to watch the feat happen on X due to the Worldwide Cyber Digest (through Techcrunch), whereby the hacker in query—who works underneath the pseudonym Martha Root—runs a script to cleanly delete not solely the websites in query, but additionally their emails and social media presences.
‼️A German hacker generally known as “Martha Root” dressed as a pink Energy Ranger and deleted a white supremacist relationship web site reside onstageThis occurred in the course of the latest CCC convention.Martha had infiltrated the positioning, ran her personal AI chatbot to extract as a lot info from customers… pic.twitter.com/vpTEoFR8JRJanuary 2, 2026
This happened on the Chaos Communication Congress, an occasion which you may bear in mind managed to reveal DRM in trains early final 12 months—the CCC is a conference devoted to cybersecurity and, because it seems, dunking on racists. For those who occur to talk German, you’ll be able to watch the speak right here.
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The three websites in query have been WhiteDate, which matched white-only {couples} ala Tinder, WhiteDeal, which Techcrunch describes as a “Taskrabbit-esque labor market for racists”, and WhiteChild, which tried to facilitate white supremacist-only babymaking through sperm and egg donors.
Root wiped the three websites throughout a chat with journalists Eva Hoftman and Christian Fuchs, each of whom wrote an article on the websites final 12 months, which claims that—in case there was any doubt—the websites have been being run by somebody who stated in 2022 that (the next quote is machine-translated) “she was engaged in a ‘race warfare’ and maintains contacts inside the neo-Nazi and Holocaust denial scene.”
The hacker additionally scraped, gathered, and shared knowledge utilizing an AI chatbot. The summary reads (additionally machine-translated): “Martha infiltrated the portal utilizing ‘sensible’ AI chatbots. The bots have been so convincing that they bypassed verification processes and have been even verified as ‘white.’ By conversations and analysis into the digital footprints of this group, which believed itself to be protected, she was in a position to establish customers.”
Whereas this all clearly took some elbow grease, Root notes that the websites had “poor cybersecurity hygiene that may make even your grandma’s AOL account blush”, with footage that ship “house addresses with a facet of awkward selfies”. Root then proceeded to attain this positively legendary dunk:
“Think about calling yourselves the ‘grasp race’ however forgetting to safe your individual web site —possibly strive mastering to host WordPress earlier than world domination.” Root additionally noticed that the websites had a ratio of 86% males and 14% girls, which they referred to as “a gender ratio that makes the Smurf village appear to be a feminist utopia”. Oof.
Whereas most of us right here at PC Gamer—and, I believe, the general public at massive—are grown a bit of world-weary of the fixed barrage of AI hype-men telling us all of us need to get used to a vivid, new, poorly quality-controlled future, it is good to see a few of that expertise being angled towards good: That being, exposing Nazis. Even when this 12 months sucks, we are able to a minimum of say that it started with this.
