EXCLUSIVE: Hackers breach Andrew Tate's online university, leak data on 800,000 users
www.dailydot.com
The hacked data includes roughly 325,000 users' email addresses
  • TJA!@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    91·
    1 day ago

    800.000 people?

    Talking bullshit seems to pay very good

    <edit> yes not everyone was paying, but still: </edit>

    If accurate, the site at minimum would generate upwards of $5,650,000 every month.

  • psmgx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    21 hours ago

    Wonder how many were bots, like Ashley Madison, that exist to pump numbers and increase engagement

  • cabron_offsets@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    1 day ago

    I take as a positive point that I had no idea who this Andrew taint guy was before the he was arrested or whatever the fuck.

  • RobotToaster@mander.xyzEnglish
    49·
    1 day ago

    My friend’s brother almost fell victim to this cult. If he’s anything to go by most members will be vulnerable idiots.

  • affiliate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    22 hours ago

    ”Money making is a skill,” the website states. “We will teach you how to master it.”

    step 1: convince people to pay you 50$ for access to your deranged ramblings.

    there is no step 2

  • stinky@redlemmy.comEnglish
    121·
    23 hours ago

    “Our article is boring. How do we get more people to read it?”

    “Put a good looking able bodied bearded white guy on the cover.”

    • AstralPath@lemmy.caEnglish
      13·
      22 hours ago

      Wut?

      The article is about Andrew Tate. Guess whose face is on the cover? Andrew Tate’s face.

          • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            51·
            20 hours ago

            Right, but when I hear “able-bodied,” there’s a pretty strong implication that they’ll actually use that body for something productive. I think your average construction worker is more “able-bodied” than Tate, Tate just looks like a gym queen.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
    24·
    13 hours ago

    Jesus Christ he has 800,000 users. That’s so depressing.

  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
    37·
    1 day ago

    Read the article, it’s so much better than the headline lets on. Trolled him, email addresses, full forum and chat content, etc.

      • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        16·
        1 day ago

        Yup, was one of the first bits I thought of too…

        I still paraphrase his “your stuff is shit, my shit is stuff” to this day… 😅

        We really need someone to fill the massive shoes he left behind - an individual able to call out all the egregious bullshit.

    • 14th_cylon@lemm.eeEnglish
      57·
      1 day ago

      i think registration and actually sending any money will be two separate steps, but it is still lot of dumb people.

    • VieuxQueb@lemmy.caEnglish
      44·
      1 day ago

      At 50$ a pop it’s 40 000 000$ Grifters gonna grift ! Sometimes I hate that I have morals stopping me from exploiting those morons.

      • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        14·
        24 hours ago

        It’s worse than you think; it’s $50/month!

        Now part of the problem is we don’t know the average membership length, and it’s further complicated by the fact that the Tate brothers ran the ‘school’ like a pyramid scheme where enrolling another member earned you a kick-back (which is why so many random channels popped up a few years back sharing clips).

        So pulling random numbers out of my arse, if the average membership period was ~6 months and they had ~30% operating expenses (servers, bandwidth, kickbacks etc.) they could have netted ~$168m from this scheme.

        I too, share your self-loathing in my morals preventing me from exploiting these absolute morons.