Given how openly white supremacists can operate on modern social media platforms, particularly Elon Musk’s X, you wouldn’t imagine they have to operate in private much anymore. But they do—or rather, they did until a recent live takedown effort. On stage at the annual Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany, a hacker known as Martha Root deleted the servers of three websites run by white nationalists.
The takedown, performed by Root while dressed up as the Pink Ranger from the Power Rangers, came at the end of a talk on the Nazi online ecosystem that also featured journalists Eva Hoffmann and Christian Fuchs, per TechCrunch. The three sites targeted included WhiteDate, a white nationalist dating site; WhiteChild, a website for matching white sperm and egg donors; and WhiteDeal, an online labor market for white supremacists. As of Monday, the websites remain offline.
‼️A German hacker known as "Martha Root" dressed as a pink Power Ranger and deleted a white supremacist dating website live onstage
This happened during the recent CCC conference.
Martha had infiltrated the site, ran her own AI chatbot to extract as much information from users… pic.twitter.com/vpTEoFR8JR
— International Cyber Digest (@IntCyberDigest) January 2, 2026
Unsurprisingly, the owners of these sites didn’t take kindly to the hacktivist hitting the “Delete” button on their operations. In a post on (where else?) X, the administrator of WhiteDate called the takedown “cyberterrorism” and said, “There will be repercussions.” In a separate post, the administrator also claimed that Root deleted WhiteDate’s X account, but that it was restored, adding a direct “thank you” to Elon Musk for getting the account back up and running.
Root’s deletion of the sites was just part of a longer humiliation campaign launched against the white nationalists, particularly those on WhiteDate. Per the presentation at Chaos Communication Congress, Root had been toying with the 8,000 or so members who signed up for the site by tricking them into conversations with AI chatbots. Through those conversations, Root was able to identify some of the users and unmask the operators of the website.
While the WhiteDate website might be down, the profiles of the users live on. Root set up a website, okstupid.lol, to host a map showing the location of each user, as well as the biography that they used on the dating site and any photos and other details they uploaded. You won’t believe this (just kidding, it’s the most predictable thing imaginable), but the site was made up of about 85% male users.
The site also has more details on Root’s exploits, including information about the proprietor of WhiteDate. So hey, the site might be down, but its users can live in infamy, now exposed in their racism thanks to a poorly configured WordPress site.
Source: Gizmodo