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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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[-] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 96 points 1 day ago

Oh. My. Fucking. God.

That many people, actually signed up, and gave him money.

That's a lot of fucking Darwin awards.

[-] answersplease77@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

how else could he own 10 buggatis and a huge mansion

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 17 points 1 day ago

Exactly my thought... Tate's U a scam, duh obviously... But god damn... that many suckers.

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

You've witnessed the US election recently, yes? I'm not exactly surprised.

[-] beansbeansbeans@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago

Wonder what percentage of them are barely voter-age teens who voted for Trump. These idiots are gifting their money to these grifters, and then turn around to complain that they don't have any money because >insert minority<.

[-] Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

They are taught to few the world as a zero sum game. What they do not realise is that they are the losers.

[-] boatswain@infosec.pub 8 points 1 day ago

Darwin awards are just for dying, though?

[-] twack@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

*removing yourself from the gene pool

Death is not required.

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[-] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 day ago

aww, one sec, have to find my tiny violin..

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[-] x00z@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago

A University a.k.a. "Buy this ebook to make money online!" and the contents are "Just resell this Ebook lol".

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 19 hours ago

Didn’t know he was accredited

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 51 points 1 day ago

This fucking guy has an online university? Really?

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago

Doesn’t every grifter have their own griftiversity?

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[-] sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago

He has a website where you can pay to hear him yell at you.

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[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

He had an online university? Was it CHUD-U?

[-] Restaldt@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

helpmebrucecampbellabsorbedmychin.com

[-] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago

Ha thats pretty funny, last i heard his dopey academy looked like it was using revolts backend code. Which would be a violation of the gpl V3 license aswell.

[-] whithom@discuss.online 38 points 1 day ago

Wow, that’s a big list of suckers

[-] scarilog@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

If I had no morals, damn. Scamming dumb misogynistic men would be such a killer money making opportunity.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago

Honestly, if you scam them and then donate the money to progressive causes, it's as if you collected taxes.

I wouldn't even call it a scam at that point.

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[-] Kalothar@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago

Where does data like this end up?

I’m asking to avoid it of course

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

It's in the article.

The email addresses from the dump were provided by the hackers to HaveIBeenPwned, a service that alerts users when their credentials are leaked. Those email addresses as well as the chat data were also handed over to the journalism collective DDoSecrets, which hosts hacked and leaked data in the public interest.

[-] Breezy@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

But its not on the site, unless i missed it

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago
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