🚨 Kolektiva.social SECURITY ALERT 🚨

This is an alert for Kolektiva.social users. Please read this post in its entirety!

In mid-May 2023, the home of one of Kolektiva.social's admins was raided, and all their electronics were seized by the FBI. The raid was part of an investigation into a local protest. Kolektiva was neither a subject nor target of this investigation. Today, that admin was charged in relation to their alleged participation in this protest.

Unfortunately, at the time of the raid, our admin was troubleshooting an issue and working with a backup copy of the Kolektiva.social database. This backup, dated from the first week of May 2023, was in an *unencrypted* state when the raid occurred and it was seized, along with everything else.

The database is the heart of a Mastodon server. A database copy such as the one seized may include any of the following user data, in this case up to date as of early May 2023:

- User account information like the e-mail address associated with your account, your followers and follows, etc.
- All your posts: public, unlisted, followers-only, *and direct ("DMs")*.
- Possibly IP addresses associated with your account - IP addresses on Kolektiva.social are logged for 3 days and then deleted, so IP addresses from any logins in the 3 days prior to the database backup date would be included.
- A hashed ("encrypted") version of your password.

🚨 👉 As a precaution we highly recommend that all users on Kolektiva.social *change their password immediately* to a new, unique, and strong password.

We sincerely apologize to all our users and regret this breach. In hindsight, it was obviously a mistake to leave a copy of the database in an unencrypted state. Unfortunately, what would otherwise have been a small mistake happened to coincide with a raid, due to bad luck and spectacularly bad timing.

We understand that our users and other people on the Fediverse will have a lot of questions. We will try to answer them as best we can, but please be patient and bear in mind that we may be overwhelmed with messages, and may be delayed in responding or unable to provide answers to certain questions for legal or technical reasons. As a security culture reminder, it can be extremely harmful to the individuals charged and to our community to openly speculate on the Internet about alleged criminal activity or about what law enforcement may be able to do with seized data. Our present awareness is that the seized Kolektiva data is unrelated to the federal investigation and prosecution and we are exploring legal avenues to have the seized data returned and copies destroyed.

Thank you for your understanding and solidarity  

👇 Please see our replies to this post for additional information (1/?) 👇

Meet Joshua Isgrigg of Porterville, CA, a neo-nazi who is active with the #WhiteLivesMatter and #ActiveClub networks. Isgrigg has a very concerning past, including elder abuse and being caught with over 100 lbs of explosive precursors.

Isgrigg has been active in the Sacramento, Porterville and SLO areas in California

Read the whole write-up here:
https://defashsac.noblogs.org/post/2023/05/26/joshua-isgrigg/

Meet Rose City Nationalists member Nick Paine of Gaston, Oregon!

New from us, @StumptownRC, @RoseCityAntifa, and FashFreeNW.

https://stumptownresearchcollective.noblogs.org/nick-paine/

Introducing you to Takoma Park, MD elementary school librarian Charles Sutherland, who took it upon himself to spray-paint GROOMER on two public libraries during Pride week - likely because the libraries held Pride events.

What did police find when they searched the home of Sutherland - a single man with no children, nieces, or nephews?
-diapers
-children's dolls
-a child-sized, life-like doll, in Sutherland's bed
-child porn on his laptop
News report:
https://www.sourceofthespring.com/takoma-park-news/2804290/takoma-park-man-arrested-for-possession-of-child-pornography/

Sutherland is number 113 on our list of bigots, fascists, and far-right extremists who are also child sex predators:
https://antifainternational.tumblr.com/post/170045856829/our-updated-list-of-racists-bigots-far-right

When far-right extremists scream about groomers, it's #projection

"Even if the court ruled in favor of the city, these public records have long since escaped the LAPD’s grasp."

That was the goal. When we got our hands on the files, I spread them out in a way that makes even a successful removal order completely irrelevant. https://theintercept.com/2023/04/11/los-angeles-lawsuit-lapd-headshots/

Please feel free to republish these doxxes to other platforms, twitter, websites, print em onto flyers and slap em up. Let the community know who these folks are!

For our next nazis we're going to introduce Bryce and Madison Chastain (maiden name Madison Luttrell), aka "Thomas Creagan" and "Bea" as their nazi noms de plume. Bryce and Madison are young, only 22, but are deeply committed neonazis. They grew up in the Anderson, Indiana area (Bryce grew up in Muncie but they both graduated from high school in Anderson, IN) and radicalized into neo nazis while still in high school. Immediately after graduating high school they left Indiana to move to Idaho to take part in a Nazi communal project from a now defunct sect called "New Awakening." New Awakening taught Bryce to be extremely careful scrubbing himself off of social media, and to have sophisticated opsec for a nazi. Bryce and Madison had a bad time meeting their online nazi buddies who refused to get jobs and help pay rent. Because New Awakening was committed to the idea of aryan homesteading and they wanted to raise livestock but didn't have permission to raise animals in their yard, they raised dozens of rabbits and chickens in their rented house's basement. We can only imagine how disgusting their nazi home was. Bryce also stated that the leader of New Awakening was engaged in sexual misconduct and "grooming". After New Awakening fell apart Bryce and Madison moved home to Indiana for a time, but then moved to Washington to take part in the idea of the Northwest Imperative, the concept of building an all white ethnostate in the Pacific Northwest. They moved to Sequim, Washington and most recently have moved down to Centralia, WA to take part in the nazi pagan scene there.

Bryce long went as Thomas Creagan on Telegram where he hosted propaganda channels including one called OlympicDreams1488, the propaganda he produced came to the attention of professional anti-extremism researchers, something he is proud of. At OlympicDreams1488 Bryce constantly promoted violent attacks against People of Color, Jews, as well as Queer and Trans folks. He also promoted attacks on infrastructure like power lines, bridges, and roads, as well as on law enforcement. Bryce has claimed friends and affiliations with skinhead gangs. Bryce rejects political tactics and strategies such protests and voting, and instead embraces violent accelerationist strategies as well as building alternative aryan communities. Bryce is an eco-fascist. Bryce travels around the West including WA, ID, MT, and OR taking part in nazi skillshares (which include survivalism and weapons training), as well as cultural events especially nazi paganism. Bryce is interested in infiltrating labor and environmental scenes, and likes to attend punk and metal shows. Bryce strongly identifies with Irish nationalism as well, as well as racist versions of norse and germanic paganism. Bryce tries to encourage other internet nazis from around the country to take the plunge and move to the PNW. He also has a strong interest in 3d printing. Bryce is considered to be a "theoryhead" or librarian and maintains and disseminates a library of fascist and nazi texts, as well as books about guerilla warfare and tactics. Bryce works as a cabinet maker and woodworker.

Madison has gone by the nom de plume "Bea", and operated the a telegram called "Bea's Comfy corner". Bea's Comfy Corner was a cottage core account which expressed racism, antisemitism, and trans hatred and where she connected with other white supremacist women. Madison works in restaurants and in retail. Madison has a big interest in "lolita" fashion and is friends with lots of minors.

Bryce and Madison recently moved from Sequim to Centralia. You can learn more about the growing white supremacist presence in Centralia here https://www.king5.com/article/news/investigations/centralia-shop-asatru-folk-assembly-ties/281-57992c5f-d73e-4c03-9e89-9dc7eda39a65

and you can learn more about the activists (unaffiliated with us) mobilizing to counter this threat at facebook.com/SWARM360

You can send tips about nazis and other hateful extremists on the Olympic Peninsula to [email protected]

#NoNazis #OlympicPeninsula #Sequim #Centralia #Indiana

For our first nazi, we will introduce you to Ken Kinnan of Brinnon, WA. Ken is active in White Lives Matter as well as Pacific Northwest Territorial Imperative. Ken is in his late 40s but likes hanging out with young teenagers quite a bit. He talks about letting teens and young adults experiencing houselessness stay with him on his property in Brinnon and then pilling them into white nationalism. Ken considers himself an expert in infosec and opsec and offers to teach those skills to other nazis. He travels around the Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, and likely further participating in White Supremacist events. He at least used to own a tow truck company, and has profile marketing himself as a voice actor. He's very into new age, alternative, yoga, pseudo-hinduism and esoteric Hitlerism. Likes to lurk around new age & alternative scenes.

Tips on nazis and other haters on the Olympic Peninsula to [email protected]

#OlympicPeninsula #NoNazis #Brinnon

In two stories about law enforcement infiltration during the George Floyd uprising, @theintercept has referenced our work without attribution.

In their story about Mickey Windecker, we are simply referred to as "an antifascist activist group in Colorado Springs," despite playing a significant role in this story by blowing Mickey's cover and being on the receiving end of his copjacketing.

https://theintercept.com/2023/02/07/fbi-denver-racial-justice-protests-informant/

In the recent story about CSPD undercover April Rogers, we broke the news about her trying to entrap leftists with illegal firearms sales a year ago, but that is never mentioned.

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/21/fbi-colorado-springs-surveillance/

Journalists and editors love to benefit from antifascist work but are often too afraid to credit us when it comes time to publish.

#Antifa #MickeyWindecker #AlphabetBoys #TheIntercept