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Mysterious Hacker Dumps Database of Infamous IronMarch Neo-Nazi Forum (zdnet.com) 186

Freshly Exhumed shares a report from ZDNet: A mysterious hacker has published today a database dump of one of the internet's most infamous neo-nazi meeting places -- the IronMarch forum. The data published today includes a full copy of its content, including sensitive details such as emails, IP addresses, usernames, and private messages. The database dump is currently being analyzed by a multitude of entities, including law enforcement, in the hopes of linking forum members to accounts on other sites and potentially exposing their real-world identities. The drive to unmask forum members comes from the fact that IronMarch, while a little-known site to most internet users, has been the birthplace of two of today's most extreme far-right neo-nazi movements -- the Atomwaffen Division and SIEGE Culture -- with the first being accused of orchestrating at least eight murders around the world. The forum's data was published earlier today via the Internet Archive portal.

"The published information includes a carbon copy of the site, from user details to forum posts, and from private messages to multi-factor authentication settings and forum management logs," reports BleepingComputer. "The forum's database includes details on 3,548 registered profiles. The last user's database ID is 15,218; however, the dump only included details on 3,548 accounts -- most likely due to spam or deleted profiles. The registration date for the last user is November 20, 2017, suggesting the database is a copy of the site near the time it went offline."
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Mysterious Hacker Dumps Database of Infamous IronMarch Neo-Nazi Forum

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  • by Myria ( 562655 ) on Thursday November 07, 2019 @06:34PM (#59392360)

    n/t

  • Comment removed (Score:3, Interesting)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Thursday November 07, 2019 @06:44PM (#59392384)
    Comment removed based on user account deletion
    • Re: (Score:2, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward

      Shhh, you risk spoiling the leftist narrative that there is a Nazi or white nationalist living under every bed, just waiting for order 66, errr... 88 to be issued.

      Have you not punched a Nazi today? I guess that makes you a Nazi as well!

      • by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

        Kinda like how some people keep telling us there are Communists under every bed.

        I've seen people claiming that the Clintons are communists. One even said Boris Johnson and Donald Trump were. It's not a competition but I don't think you will be able to match that level of hysteria, especially when Nazis are actually murdering people.

        https://www.businessinsider.co... [businessinsider.com]

    • You're absolutely right, but these are actually Nazis, and we've had a few terrorist attacks from them recently. I think this has its own value.
    • by Ungrounded Lightning ( 62228 ) on Thursday November 07, 2019 @08:06PM (#59392542) Journal

      Nazism has never been very big in the USA.

      That's largely because their niche was mostly handled by the KKK, which was very active at the time. The Klan had similar ideologies and methods, but tuned to the social situations of the U.S., was active, not just in the South, but even more so in the North, and was largely populated by the politicians, sheriffs, judges, and businessmen of the cities they controlled.

      Though explicitly NAZI organizations were not large, pieces of their ideology were quite popular, both among the population and with some big names among the 1% - such as Henry Ford and Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.

      A lot of their stuff can be made to SOUND good, at first - which is part of why they were popular with the German population. It was during the war, as they carried these ideas to their logical extremes, that their downsides became apparent.

      • Arguably the Nazis were more Henry Ford-ists than he was a Nazi.

        But I have to disagree with you on the KKK, they were more specifically the paramilitary group/reinforcement arm of the Democratic party. They were far far more worried about ensuring the Democratic party remained in power than anything else. Also they are mostly known as segregationists/black haters; Something the Nazi party was not know for.

      • by hawk ( 1151 )

        The KKK would be more aptly compared in role and history to the SA, not the Nazi party itself.

        Which is, in a number of ways, even *more* scary . . .

        And now we're seeing the same Brownshirt tactics to shut down others' speech by the anafoofoos (or whatever they're calling themselves this weak).

        hawk

    • The Bund had been thoroughly infiltrated by FBI agents and informants, so your 20K number is way too high a count of bona fide Nazis in that group. Anyways, I don't see why you've brought this up in the context of the IronMarch database leak, which is/was an international forum.

      • "All right, you're all under arrest. I'm with the FBI!"

        "Not me, I'm Homeland Security."

        "ICE here."

        "Tennessee Attorney General's hate crime unit."

        "North Las Vegas gang unit."

        [FBI guy looks around. Then sighs.]

        "Are there any *real* Nazis here? If so, please raise your hand."

        [crickets.]

        hawk

  • No problem (Score:4, Insightful)

    by JustAnotherOldGuy ( 4145623 ) on Thursday November 07, 2019 @07:10PM (#59392428) Journal

    If those forum members have the courage of their convictions and aren't just a bunch of sniveling posers then they shouldn't mind everyone knowing that they're Nazis.

    • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

      by eaglesrule ( 4607947 )

      Young stupid kids who get associated with this should be branded for life and have their lives ruined for engaging in speech on a private forum, with no hope for redemption ever. My god I can hardly contain my thirst to virtue signal how righteousness I am though vicious condemnation and personal attacks, and my checkmarked Twitter account is locked and loaded.

      • Young stupid kids who get associated with this should be branded for life and have their lives ruined for engaging in speech on a private forum, with no hope for redemption ever.

        Actually, I don't recall saying that.

        My point is that you can't call for exterminating whole races and groups of people and still get to hide in the shadows.

    • If those forum members have the courage of their convictions and aren't just a bunch of sniveling posers then they shouldn't mind everyone knowing that they're Nazis.

      If they had courage, they wouldn't be Nazis.

      • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

        by eaglesrule ( 4607947 )

        I show how brave I am by always toeing the line and keeping my opinions limited to those that would never need protecting.

        In fact I was just telling my gay husband how tolerating unpopular speech without immediate severe consequences sets a terrible standard. We must seek it out wherever it exists and expose those who are guilty so they can face the repercussions.

        • I show how brave I am by always toeing the line and keeping my opinions limited to those that would never need protecting.

          And I show how brave I am by advocating for the wholesale extermination of other races and then hiding behind a facade of "muh free speech opinionz!" to try and excuse it.

          In fact I was just telling my gay husband how tolerating unpopular speech without immediate severe consequences sets a terrible standard.

          Really? I was just telling my gay husband how Nazis suck and how they should be shunned and shamed into committing suicide.

        • I show how brave I am by always toeing the line and keeping my opinions limited to those that would never need protecting.

          I don't even toe the line of slashbot groupthink, you think this is about toeing the line? This is about Nazis, who want to exterminate everyone who isn't part of some mythical white "race", as if a) white were a race, or b) race were a real thing.

          We literally fought a world war over whether white should be allowed to try to genocide everyone else, starting with the Jews. And you know what? We decided they shouldn't. Well, most of us did, anyway. Apparently you didn't get the memo.

          Nazis are cowards through

  • Now Do Antifa (Score:2, Insightful)

    As long as we're doxing anonymous cowards who advocate violence based on politics...

  • What forum random people belong to? I know they have their excuse in the summary but if you actually read it carefully it sounds quite weasely and indirect from the impression they're trying to convey for most people who would just glance at it in a second.
    • by Mashiki ( 184564 )

      It's not. But as we've seen with 4chan and 8chan, some western governments really like trying to bait people into committing violence for a cause. There's a reason why they're called glowies on 'chans.

      • some western governments really like trying to bait people into committing violence for a cause.

        Tell us another fairy tale, Grandpa!

    • by Cederic ( 9623 )

      The summary alone pointed out that two extremist networks - on associated with multiple murders - have arisen from this site.

      Why on earth wouldn't law enforcement be interested in discovering who formed these networks, who participates in them, whether they've discussed illegal activities (including murder and/or terrorism).

      Quite apart from direct evidence that could lead to a conviction this information will help law enforcement identify and investigate individuals of interest. Rather helpful if it means t

    • by sosume ( 680416 )

      This was apparently a private forum. Even though these people are Nazi's, they too have the right to private communications. Isn't the government fishing in private messages of forum users illegal? I mean, sure, this is about Nazis so they must be evil and locked up, but aren't we throwing away a bunch of fundamental rights here?

  • And half those accounts are probably the FBI's and SPLC's.

    Good to know that neo-Nazis are so rare and unpopular.

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