Overview
- The pseudonymous operator known as Martha Root remotely wiped WhiteDate, WhiteChild and WhiteDeal live on stage at the Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, with the sites still offline.
- Thousands of profiles totaling about 100 GB were extracted, including names, photos, bios, ages and precise coordinates found in image metadata, while emails and passwords were not posted publicly for now.
- Root says custom AI chatbots bypassed site checks and automated social engineering to harvest data at scale.
- DDoSecrets confirmed receipt of the full dataset for gated access by verified journalists and researchers, and a sanitized public front end is available at okstupid.lol.
- Site administrators acknowledged the deletions on social media, labeled the action “cyberterrorism,” and vowed repercussions.