This Woman Hacker Shut Down a “Tinder for Nazis” and Exposed the Dark Algorithm of Loneliness and Hate

If you feel burnt out on dating apps, this story might give you a grim little dopamine hit.

A hacker who goes by Martha Root targeted WhiteDate, a white supremacist dating site that journalist Eva Hoffmann compared to a “Tinder for Nazis,” according to Futurism. Root then took the platform down after months of infiltration and documentation, sharing the findings during a talk at the 39th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany.

So yes, there was a Tinder for Nazis

WhiteDate pitched itself as a “white-only” space for people seeking “traditionalist, right-wing values and vision for the future,” a language Root used inside the prompt that trained her chatbot.

In the CCC event description, organisers describe WhiteDate as a platform aimed at racists and antisemites, built on outdated infrastructure. They also name two related sites: WhiteChild and WhiteDeal.

The Pink Power Ranger hacker we did not know we needed

Root walked onstage dressed as the Pink Ranger and “unceremoniously deleted the servers of WhiteDate” during her talk.

She also hit the site’s ecosystem. Root wiped WhiteChild, which connected white supremacist sperm and egg donors, and WhiteDeal, which it described as “a blatantly racist marketplace for freelance labor.”

The tech bros of hate had zero tech

Root did not need some elite, Hollywood-style breach. She called it “The worst security that you can imagine.”

Cybernews described “poor cybersecurity practices” and reported that the researcher claimed she did not need sophisticated techniques to extract the data.

Tinder for Nazis users flirted with chatbots, and some even caught feelings

This is where the story turns into dark satire.

Root trained an AI chatbot using Meta’s open-source Llama model to engage users and “gather as much data as possible before the site went offline or noticed.”

Root’s prompt coached the bot to sound like the fantasy these users came looking for. “Show interest in traditional family roles and heritage, using an approachable tone with a mix of warmth and conviction,” she wrote.

Meanwhile, the official CCC listing says: “Some of the Nazis flirted this year with realistic-looking chatbots and even fell in love with them.”

Tinder for Nazis math looks bleak: 86 percent men

Root later built a front end for parts of what she collected at okstupid.lol, describing it as “the only place where one person’s questionable life choices meet the tragicomic world of far-right online dating.”

The same reporting says 86% of the site’s more than 6,500 users were men, and Root joked it had “a gender ratio that makes the Smurf village look like a feminist utopia.”

Similarly, the platform skewed heavily male and attributed that imbalance to the scale of the leak it reviewed.

What got exposed, and what did not

The leak affected WhiteDate, WhiteChild, and WhiteDeal, exposing over 8,000 profiles and 100GB of data. The dataset included highly sensitive profile details and photos, including EXIF metadata that could reveal precise GPS coordinates, timestamps, and device information.

At the same time, Cybernews reported that “emails and private messages” had not been publicly exposed.

Root also passed material to the nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets, which notes that access to portions of the data remains restricted to verified journalists and researchers “at the request of the source.”

Onstage receipts: the Tinder for Nazis deletion played like a mic drop

Root opened a terminal window and ran a script as the audience reacted in real time.

The CCC event description frames the work as a blend of “AI personas,” investigative thinking, conversation analysis, web scraping, and OSINT methods used to identify the people behind the platform.

The site admin called it “cyberterrorism” and promised “repercussions”

After the takedown, the platform’s administrator posted on X, calling it “cyberterrorism” and writing: “But we will find them, and trust me, there will be repercussions.”

That reaction matters because it shows the contradiction at the center of these spaces. They want to operate as a “safe haven,” yet they rely on brittle infrastructure and the assumption that no one will look too closely.

The real twist is the loneliness algorithm behind it all

WhiteDate tried to package hate as romance and belonging. The CCC description goes further, explicitly connecting the ecosystem to the way “ideology and loneliness” intertwine across these platforms.

That is what makes the episode feel so “priceless,” in the bleakest possible sense. Root used the same mechanics that keep normal dating apps alive: attention, flattery, and fantasy, and turned them into a mirror. Then she pulled the plug.