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2021 Epik data breach, the Glossary

The Epik data breach occurred in September and October 2021, targeting the American domain registrar and web hosting company Epik.^[1]

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Anonymous (hacker group)
Data breaches in the United States
Distributed Denial of Secrets
September 2021 events in the United States

Aftermath of the January 6 United States Capitol attack

The attackJanuary 6 United States Capitol attack was followed by political, legal, and social repercussions.

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Ali Alexander

Ali Alexander (born Ali Abdul-Razaq Akbar in) is an American far-right activist, social media personality, and conspiracy theorist.

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Anonymous is a decentralized international activist and hacktivist collective and movement primarily known for its various cyberattacks against several governments, government institutions and government agencies, corporations and the Church of Scientology. 2021 Epik data breach and Anonymous (hacker group) are hacking in the 2020s.

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Anti-abortion movements

Anti-abortion movements, also self-styled as pro-life movements, are involved in the abortion debate advocating against the practice of abortion and its legality.

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Ars Technica

Ars Technica is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998.

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Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election

After Democratic nominee Joe Biden won the 2020 United States presidential election, Republican nominee and then-incumbent president Donald Trump pursued an unprecedented effort to overturn the election, with support and assistance from his campaign, proxies, political allies, and many of his supporters.

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Aubrey Cottle

Aubrey Cottle (born), also known as Kirtaner or Kirt, is a Canadian website forum administrator who claims to be an early member of the hacktivist group Anonymous.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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BuzzFeed News

BuzzFeed News was an American news website published by BuzzFeed beginning in 2011.

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Church of Scientology

The Church of Scientology is a group of interconnected corporate entities and other organizations devoted to the practice, administration and dissemination of Scientology, which is variously defined as a cult, a business, or a new religious movement.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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Coinbase

Coinbase Global, Inc., branded Coinbase, is an American publicly traded company that operates a cryptocurrency exchange platform.

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Collective

A collective is a group of entities that share or are motivated by at least one common issue or interest or work together to achieve a common objective.

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Columbia Journalism Review

The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) is a biannual magazine for professional journalists that has been published by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism since 1961.

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Consumer protection

Consumer protection is the practice of safeguarding buyers of goods and services, and the public, against unfair practices in the marketplace.

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Cyberattack

A cyberattack (or cyber attack) occurs when there is an unauthorized action against computer infrastructure that compromises the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of its content.

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Data breach

A data breach, also known as data leakage, is "the unauthorized exposure, disclosure, or loss of personal information".

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Data scraping

Data scraping is a technique where a computer program extracts data from human-readable output coming from another program.

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Data security

Data security means protecting digital data, such as those in a database, from destructive forces and from the unwanted actions of unauthorized users, such as a cyberattack or a data breach.

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David Vladeck

David C. Vladeck (born June 6, 1951) is the former director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection of the Federal Trade Commission, an independent agency of the United States government.

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Decentralization

Decentralization or decentralisation is the process by which the activities of an organization, particularly those regarding planning and decision-making, are distributed or delegated away from a central, authoritative location or group and given to smaller factions within it.

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Disk image

A disk image is a snapshot of a storage device's structure and data typically stored in one or more computer files on another storage device.

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Distributed Denial of Secrets

Distributed Denial of Secrets, abbreviated DDoSecrets, is a nonprofit whistleblower site founded in 2018 for news leaks.

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Domain name registrar

A domain name registrar is a company, person, or office that manages the reservation of Internet domain names.

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Domain privacy

Domain privacy (often called Whois privacy) is a service offered by a number of domain name registrars.

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Emma Best (journalist)

Emma Best is an American investigative reporter and whistleblower. 2021 Epik data breach and Emma Best (journalist) are distributed Denial of Secrets.

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Encryption

In cryptography, encryption is the process of transforming (more specifically, encoding) information in a way that, ideally, only authorized parties can decode.

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Epik

Epik is an American domain registrar and web hosting company known for providing services to alt-tech websites that host far-right, neo-Nazi, and other extremist materials.

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Extremism

Extremism is "the quality or state of being extreme" or "the advocacy of extreme measures or views".

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Far-right politics

Far-right politics, or right-wing extremism, is a spectrum of political thought that tends to be radically conservative, ultra-nationalist, and authoritarian, often also including nativist tendencies.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Federal Trade Commission

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government whose principal mission is the enforcement of civil (non-criminal) antitrust law and the promotion of consumer protection.

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Gab is an American alt-tech microblogging and social networking service known for its far-right userbase. 2021 Epik data breach and Gab (social network) are distributed Denial of Secrets.

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Gabriella Coleman

Enid Gabriella Coleman (usually known as Gabriella Coleman or Biella; born 1973) is an anthropologist, academic and author whose work focuses on politics and cultures of hacking and online activism, and has worked on distinct hacker communities, such as free and open-source software hackers, Anonymous and security hackers, among others.

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George Floyd protests

The George Floyd protests were a series of riots and demonstrations against police brutality that began in Minneapolis in the United States on May 26, 2020.

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Georgetown University

Georgetown University is a private Jesuit research university in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States.

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Gigabyte

The gigabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

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Gizmodo

Gizmodo is a design, technology, science, and science fiction website.

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GoDaddy

GoDaddy Inc. is an American publicly traded Internet domain registry, domain registrar and web hosting company headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, and incorporated in Delaware.

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Government

A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.

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Hacktivism

Internet activism, hacktivism, or hactivism (a portmanteau of hack and activism), is the use of computer-based techniques such as hacking as a form of civil disobedience to promote a political agenda or social change.

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Have I Been Pwned?

Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP; stylized in all lowercase as ";--have i been pwned?") is a website that allows Internet users to check whether their personal data has been compromised by data breaches.

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January 6 United States Capitol attack

On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. was attacked by a mob of supporters of then-U.S. president Donald Trump, two months after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.

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Le Monde

Le Monde (The World) is a French daily afternoon newspaper.

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List of security hacking incidents

The list of security hacking incidents covers important or noteworthy events in the history of security hacking and cracking.

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MD5

The MD5 message-digest algorithm is a widely used hash function producing a 128-bit hash value.

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Megan Squire

Megan Squire is a professor of computer science at Elon University.

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Messaging spam

Messaging spam, sometimes called SPIM, is a type of spam targeting users of instant messaging (IM) services, SMS, or private messages within websites.

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Neo-Nazism

Neo-Nazism comprises the post-World War II militant, social, and political movements that seek to revive and reinstate Nazi ideology.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Oath Keepers

Oath Keepers is an American far-right anti-government militia whose leaders have been convicted of violently opposing the government of the United States, including the transfer of presidential power as prescribed by the United States constitution.

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Panama Papers

The Panama Papers (Papeles de Panamá) are 11.5 million leaked documents (or 2.6 terabytes of data) that were published beginning on April 3, 2016.

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Parler

Parler (pronounced "parlor") was an American alt-tech social networking service associated with conservatives. 2021 Epik data breach and Parler are distributed Denial of Secrets.

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PayPal

PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational financial technology company operating an online payments system in the majority of countries that support online money transfers; it serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders.

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Plaintext

In cryptography, plaintext usually means unencrypted information pending input into cryptographic algorithms, usually encryption algorithms.

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Proud Boys

The Proud Boys is an exclusively male North American far-right, neo-fascist militant organization that promotes and engages in political violence.

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Public-key cryptography

Public-key cryptography, or asymmetric cryptography, is the field of cryptographic systems that use pairs of related keys.

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Recorded Future

Recorded Future is a privately held cybersecurity company founded in 2009, with headquarters in Somerville, Massachusetts.

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Republican Party of Texas

The Republican Party of Texas (RPT) is the affiliate of the United States Republican Party in the state of Texas.

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Rob Monster

Robert W. Monster (born 1966 or 1967) is a Dutch-American technology executive and the founder, former chief executive officer, and current chairman of Epik, a domain registrar and web host known for providing services to websites that host far-right, neo-Nazi, and extremist content.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Epik_data_breach

Also known as Epik data breach, Epik hack.

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2021 Epik data breach, the Glossary

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See also

Anonymous (hacker group)

Data breaches in the United States

Distributed Denial of Secrets

September 2021 events in the United States

References