Researchers claim users identified from online leak of contents of now defunct Iron March, linked to acts of extremist terrorism.
An apparent online leak of materials from influential neo-Nazi website Iron March, which has linked to several murders and acts of extremist terrorism, has the potential to identify hundreds of extremists around the world.
The material, posted anonymously to an online archiving site on Wednesday, US time, by a user identified only as “antifa-data”.
Material uncovered in the leak so far suggests some users on the platform registered with existing personal email addresses, including addresses associated with several US universities.
By Wednesday evening on social media, researchers were claiming to have identified several individual users by means of the leak, including a one-time congressional candidate.
Iron March was founded in 2011 by a Russian nationalist named Alexander “Slavros” Mukhitdinov, and abruptly closed without explanation in November 2017.
Those ideas are now part of the DNA of neo-Nazi groups like AWD and The Base. »