Accused child sex trafficker and misogynist Andrew Tate
An online money-making course belonging to right-wing “manosphere” influencer and accused child sex trafficker Andrew Tate has been hacked by pro-transgender hackers. The hack has revealed that the course’s users — who pay from around $41 to $50 a month to use the site — have complained about its chat forums being overrun by spam.
The hackers accessed over 794,000 usernames, the contents of 616 public and private chat servers, and 324,382 unique email addresses of former users who stopped paying for the course, according to The Daily Dot. The hackers also changed the course’s primary chatroom with emojis that included the trans flag, a feminist fist icon, pictures of Tate draped in the rainbow flag, pics of him with enlarged buttocks, and icons that spelled out “Andrew Tate loves kissing femboys.” (Femboys is slang for effeminate men and boys.)
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The course — which is entitled “The Real World” but was previously called “Hustler’s University” — is a forum with chat channels and instructional videos on health and fitness, finance, and e-commerce.
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Near the end of last month, hackers reportedly said they were able to access The Real World’s data through a site “vulnerability” — they described the site’s cybersecurity as “hilariously insecure.” The hackers then gained access to the site’s 221 public and 395 private chat servers and also “to upload emojis, delete attachments, crash everyone’s clients, and temporarily ban people,” the group said in a statement shared by The Daily Dot.
One chatroom user’s comments complained about the “LGBTQ agenda,” and others complained that the chat servers are “useless” due to “all the spam.” One user wrote, “No one is learning anymore. No one puts any effort into anything. Respect to those few who actually do. But most of them, especially the new students here, are literally farming.”
In his own social media comments, Tate called news reports of the hacking “fake news,” and claimed, “The most advanced hackers in the world have tried to take us down and FAILED. We are too strong … THE REAL WORLD is secure and we’ve only just begun.”
Despite his claims, The Real World was also hacked last July, according to Cybernews. In that case, hackers accessed 968,447 user accounts, including “user IDs, email addresses, encrypted passwords, verification statuses, account recovery codes, password expiration dates, and reset tokens,” the outlet reported.
Tate is currently facing several legal investigations in Romania and the U.K. for rape and child sex trafficking charges. In recent comments, he has said men who enjoy heterosexual sex purely for pleasure (rather than for creating children) are actually gay. He has also said that women belong in the home, are men’s property, and bear responsibility for when they are raped.
