“Tinder for Nazis” hit by 100GB data leak, thousands of users exposed

An investigative journalist has infiltrated the white supremacist dating website WhiteDate and exfiltrated over 8,000 profiles and 100GB of data. Photos and other sensitive details have been made public, and the full “WhiteLeaks” data is available to journalists and researchers on DDoSecrets.

An “old-school anarchist researcher,” who goes by the online pseudonym Martha Root, claims to have breached a racist dating site and two similar platforms.

The leak affects WhiteDate, a white supremacist dating site for “Europids seeking tribal love,” WhiteChild, a white supremacist site focused on family and ancestry, and WhiteDeal, a networking and professional development site for people with a racist worldview.

All three platforms were operated by a right-wing extremist from Germany.

“I infiltrated a racist dating site and made nazis fall in love with robots,” Root claims.

The journalist found that websites’ cybersecurity hygiene was so poor that it “would make even your grandma’s AOL account blush.”

“Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website – maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination.”

What data was exposed?

The researcher created a website okstupid.lol, where 8,000 leaked profiles are placed on the map, exposing users from very different regions of the world.

The data includes highly sensitive and detailed self-reported information, such as usernames, gender, age, location, activity history, lifestyle, height, eye color, hair color, and other physical appearance traits, income range, education, marital status, religion, and even self-assessed IQ, among many other fields.

Notably, the dataset also contains numerous profile photos, along with embedded EXIF metadata that reveals precise GPS coordinates, device information, timestamps, and other identifying details.

The researcher claims that image metadata “practically hands out home addresses.”

“Would like to find a woman who understands the value of nation and race, seeks the truth,” one of the exposed profiles reads.

Root claims that the platform’s gender ratio “makes the Smurf village look like a feminist utopia” – the site is overwhelmingly male.

“For now,” the emails and private messages haven’t been publicly exposed. However, the dataset, dubbed “WhiteLeaks,” has been made available to researchers and journalists on Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets), a nonprofit whistleblower site.

The researcher also disclosed that the entire operation was run by a Paris-based company called Horn & Partners, and they identified the woman behind the company.

Investigative journalists and Root presented the data and findings at the 39th Chaos Communications Congress in Germany.

“Martha is whatever the antifascist movement needs at the moment: a ghost in their servers, a thorn in their mythologies, and an intelligence that refuses obedience,” the researcher’s bio on the site reads.

Eva Hoffman, one of the investigative journalists who presented the findings, compared the WhiteDate site to “Tinder for nazis.”

How did Root get a foothold on the platforms?

The journalist initially created fake accounts on the platforms, driven by a large language model. She used Ollama and local models. The bots were so convincing that they bypassed the verification process and were even verified as "white."

“Some of WhiteDate’s most dedicated Aryan suitors spent weeks chatting with a chatbot trained, prompted, and monitored by me. And while they flirted with their perfect trad wife, I collected data, screenshots, patterns, plans,” the researcher said.

Root spent a few months documenting WhiteDate.net's userbase, ideology, and the woman running the platform.

“She’s trying to build a full-blown fascist white supremacy network disguised as a dating app. She doesn't want journalists snooping around. She warns her users about feds and anti-white infiltrators.”

Some users even fell in love with realistic-looking chatbots.

The researcher’s curiosity quickly evolved into an experiment on human behavior, technology, and absurdity. Root used a combination of automated conversation analysis, web scraping, and classic OSINT methods.

Root said she contacted a hacker who helped to exfiltrate the data. However, no hacks were required – all it took was a simple URL trick of adding “download-all-users/” to the top-level domain.

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