Andrew Tate’s controversial online “university” breached, 800K users’ data stolen

Social media personality Andrew Tate’s online “university” has suffered its second data security incident in less than a year. The Daily Dot reports that hackers obtained chat logs and leaked user emails.

The Real World, Tate’s subscription-based all-in-one learning platform that claims to offer users insights on business development, has been hacked, according to a report by the Daily Dot. The hackers exposed the data of around 800,000 users.

It’s not the first cybersecurity incident related to the celebrity and its platform. In July, Cybernews reported that The Real World leaked data on nearly a million users and over 22 million messages.

Previously, the data was accidentally left exposed in an unprotected MongoDB instance, which held 968,447 user accounts. It’s unclear if the two incidents are related.

During the latest breach, hackers announced their actions by flooding the platform's primary chatroom with emojis while Tate was streaming.

Malicious attackers provided the Daily Dot with “the contents of the platform’s 221 public and 395 private chat servers”, including a list of 324,382 unique email addresses, allegedly belonging to users who failed to pay for the services and were removed.

Both Tate and his The Real World platform, formerly known as Hustler’s University, have received criticism for promoting misogynistic lifestyle choices.

In late 2022, Tate was arrested in Romania over charges of rape, human trafficking, and forming an organized crime group to sexually exploit women, and currently remains under house arrest, according to BBC.