Today in Focus ‘Tinder for Nazis’ and the woman who hacked it
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Apr 2, 2026 
Eva Hoffmann, German investigative journalist who researches right‑wing extremism, and Martha Root, an anonymous hacker-activist who infiltrates far-right networks. They recount finding and verifying a neo‑Nazi dating site, the leaked user database and demographics, creating AI personas to engage members, tracing the site's operator and related white‑only projects, and a dramatic public takedown.
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Live Hacking Theater That Took Down White Date
- Martha Root hacked into White Date and performed a live demo at 39C3, showing code that deleted the site's files and backups.
- She masked her identity, appeared as the Pink Ranger, and narrated deleting whitedate.map, backups, social profiles and emails line by line.
Dating Profiles Doubling As Radicalisation Hubs
- White Date profiles combined ordinary dating fields with explicit extremist ideology, openly listing national socialism and ethnonationalist views.
- Users used terms like Europids and posted Third Reich imagery, making the platform both a dating and recruitment/organising space.
White Date Was A Large International Network
- The scraped dataset contained about 6,600 users, mainly from the US and Canada, with an average age of 38 and an 88% male skew.
- The platform was international, contradicting assumptions that such sites are localised niche communities.