---
title: "Someone Published All the Membership Data From a Neo-Nazi Website"
description: "Someone just released a massive amount of data from Iron March, one of the most influential neo-Nazi websites in the world."
date: "2019-11-09"
modified: "2019-11-09"
authors:
  - name: "Kristin Houser"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/kristin"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/someone-published-membership-data-neo-nazi-website"
categories:
  - "Cybersecurity"
  - "Data Privacy"
  - "Future Society"
tags:
  - "hack"
  - "iron march"
  - "neo-nazis"
  - "the digest"
---

# Someone Published All the Membership Data From a Neo-Nazi Website

![Someone just released a massive amount of data from Iron March, one of the most influential neo-Nazi websites in the world.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/someone-stole-membership-data-nazi-forum.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Victor Tangermann\</em\>*

## Data Dump

Prior to its abrupt close in November 2017, [Iron March](<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/07/neo-nazi-site-iron-march-materials-leak>) was one of the most influential neo-Nazi websites in the world. Investigators have linked the site to murders, acts of terrorism, and fascist groups in at least nine different countries.

And now, thanks to a leak from an anonymous source, researchers have access to the entire contents of Iron March — including the user names, registered email addresses, and IP addresses of nearly 1,000 site members.

## Hate Speech

On Wednesday, someone using the handle "antifa-data" posted a 1GB SQL database appearing to contain all of the data from Iron March to [the Internet Archive.](<https://archive.org/details/iron_march_201911>)

In addition to info that could lead to the identification of Iron March members, the database also includes the contents of members' public messages and private chats, much of which — as you'd expect from a neo-Nazi site— is rife with hateful speech and white supremacist rhetoric.

## Dropping Names

Disturbingly, as [noted by *Bellingcat*](<https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2019/11/06/massive-white-supremacist-message-board-leak-how-to-access-and-interpret-the-data/>), an open source journalism website, early analysis of the leak suggests that several Iron March members were active military personnel at the time they posted to the site. Others, meanwhile, expressed a strong desire to [join the military](<https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/11/07/desire-to-join-military-large-focus-of-leaked-chats-in-infamous-neo-nazi-forum/>).

Several members of the site have been outed directly on social media already, including a former congressional candidate — and the leak is likely to help researchers and investigators identify numerous other neo-Nazis.

**READ MORE:** [Members of violent white supremacist website exposed in massive data dump](<https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/11/massive-data-dump-exposes-members-of-website-for-violent-white-supremacists/>) \[Ars Technica\]

**More on neo-Nazis:** *[Facebook Reportedly Let Marketers Advertise to Nazis](<https://futurism.com/facebook-marketers-advertise-nazis>)*

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinjhouser>)