Anonymous Hacktivists Leak 180 GB of Data from Web Host Epik

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One of the most prominent hacktivists gangs, Anonymous, has returned. Security analysts have verified that the most recent attack by malicious hackers focuses on Epik, an alt-right web host company. 
Anonymous Hacktivist group claims that they have seized gigabytes of Epik’s data which supplies several customers with the domain name, hosting, and DNS services. Among many other places on the right-wing are the GOP in Texas, Gab, Parler, and 8chan. The information stolen was disclosed as a torrent document. The hacktivist group states that the data package, which has a size of over 180 GB, includes a “decade’s worth of data from the company.” 
Epik is a web and domain registrar service provider company that caters to certain right-wing customers. The company is a leading service provider: it helps organizations that normally disconnect IT, service providers. 
“The data set is all that’s needed to trace actual ownership and management of the fascist side of the Internet that has eluded researchers, activists, and, well, just about everybody,” said the Anonymous hackers. 
The allegedly disclosed database might enable anyone to know the identity of Epik client as well as other personally identifiable information as per Ars Technica’s latest revelation. 
Likewise, Anonymous’s current cyber operation named “Operation Jane” was launched in September following the passing of the Texas Heartbeat Act. The restricted abortion law authorizes the enforcement of the

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