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An online course founded by far-right influencer Andrew Tate was breached by hackers, revealing the email addresses of roughly 325,000 users.

The self-described online university, known as The Real World, offers users “advanced training and mentoring” for around $50 per month. Formerly known as Hustler’s University, the platform focuses on topics such as health and fitness, financial investment, and e-commerce businesses.

“Money making is a skill,” the website states. “We will teach you how to master it.”

On Thursday, the hackers made their actions known by flooding the course’s primary chatroom with emojis they uploaded while Tate was streaming an episode of his show “Emergency Meeting” on Rumble. 

The emojis included a transgender flag, a feminist fist, an AI-generated image of Tate draped in a rainbow flag, another where his buttocks are enlarged, and the cat character used in the “boykisser” meme.

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[-] Rose@lemmy.zip 34 points 13 hours ago

I guess their security turned out to be as fragile as their masculinity!

[-] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 8 points 10 hours ago

"University" is a pretty generous description.

[-] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 20 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

For anyone not aware, the entire breach has been published by DDOSecrets and can be torrented by anyone.

For research and journalism purposes, of course.

[-] Manalith@midwest.social 2 points 9 hours ago

Obxiously I get the joke in the name DDoSecrets, but it is funny that denial is the exact opposite of what they're doing.

[-] gmalette@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 hours ago

Denying secrets?

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 21 points 14 hours ago

If everyone on that list was closely monitored from here, probably the end of school shootings.

[-] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 23 points 16 hours ago

These hackers have fantastic values, and the effort they put into this made the world a slightly better place. Good on em.

(next on the block: Jordan Peterson's School for Very Logical Manbabies)

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 19 points 17 hours ago

Oohh, where can I find this list? My wife's ex is one of those sad little men who follows and recommends him everywhere

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 34 points 19 hours ago

Boot camps for adults that don’t actually want to do any real work along with a get rich quick incel overtone. What a scam.

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago

"incel" is key word here. utter trash.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 75 points 1 day ago

Hi mom I just enrolled in the university of a guy who traffics sex slaves and thinks all women should be one

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 24 points 19 hours ago

My mom is maga so she would probably be proud

[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 6 points 17 hours ago

It's extra sad when women get sucked into the maga cult

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[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 7 points 17 hours ago

worried for all my favorite youtubers who signed up in order to expose how shit the content is lol. hope they used fake info.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 6 points 17 hours ago

He was streaming? Isn't he about to go to jail?

[-] cheers_queers@lemm.ee 1 points 10 hours ago

i thought he was already in jail tbh

[-] 01011@monero.town 6 points 17 hours ago
[-] smokebuddy@lemmy.today 2 points 7 hours ago

I know a big part of his scam is constantly hyping up artificial scarcity, and that if you ever stop paying you get permabanned. So it's possible a number of users might be just the same people but with glasses or fake mustaches, but it's still an outrageous number of people. Sad.

[-] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 10 points 13 hours ago

We also elected orange Hitler. AGAIN. Nothing surprises me anymore.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

Pandering to male insecurity works.

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 199 points 1 day ago

Oh shit, there’s a database of the easily influenced with expendable income?

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[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago

See, this is what the Matt Gaetz hacker would do if they actually had it

[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago

I sometimes work for a guy who thinks women shouldn't be allowed to vote. He's genuinely kind, but not at all academic. It is entirely the fault of low-effort internet bullshit like this. It's actually very upsetting to see somebody poisoned by social media in real-time.

[-] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 12 points 17 hours ago

It is entirely the fault of low-effort internet bullshit like this.

People like Andrew Tate deserve part of the blame for propagating this kind of message, sure. But your client who thinks women shouldn't be allowed to vote is a bad person, and his moral failing is entirely his own. He doesn't deserve pity because he's uneducated and falling for propaganda. He's a sexist piece of shit who thinks women deserve fewer rights than men. Don't make up excuses for him. He's a grown man with agency over himself. He chose his path.

[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I don't really believe in free will, so I take a different position to you regarding individual moral failings. He's obviously confused, and I'm glad I can offer the occasional course correction. If I didn't have compassion, that wouldn't be possible.

[-] WeUnite@lemm.ee 4 points 15 hours ago

Group think and tribalism is very powerful. I used to be a Trump supporter and I remember thinking about how women were more likely to vote for progressive candidates with the conclusion that perhaps they shouldn't be doing that. I now very deeply regret being part of that and I'm so grateful I broke free of all that nonsense. Monkey see, monkey do is very true. That's why it's important that our leaders demonstrate good behavior and set a good example for everyone.

[-] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

I'm sorry you have to work for him, and I'm doubly sorry for any women who have to work with him. He's not genuinely kind. It doesn't take an academic to see half the human population as humans deserving of the same rights as the other half.

I agree about how upsetting it's been though. My neigbour and I used to share bbq over the fence and shoot the shit about his life. Now he's got crazy eyes and legit thinks and says that my wife and I are evil witches (and whatever qanonsense his feed fed him yesterday). I miss the peace I had in my own backyard pre-2016, but here we are.

btw, a lot of effort goes into the misogynist fascist takeover of our public spaces (including online). None of this just happened because (for example, one genesis myth is) low income white boys were bored on the internet. They've been groomed for hate and it's all deliberate.

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[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 137 points 1 day ago

The Daily Dot was provided with approximately 794,000 usernames for what are believed to be the site’s current and former members, as well as the contents of the platform’s 221 public and 395 private chat servers. [...] The Real World claims it currently has over 113,000 active users. If accurate, the site at minimum would generate upwards of $5,650,000 every month.

Jesus, why is this bullshit that large?

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I mean, that's about one moderately sized cities worth of people out of probably most of the world, since I assume they don't only serve US customers

Edit: for context the state of Nebraska, famously the least populous state in the union has about 1.9 million residents

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