Epik
American web services company
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| January 2024 | ICANN approved the transfer of Epik, finalizing the sale to Epik LLC. The company updated its terms of service, removing violators and 'problematic clients' from its platform during the review process. |
| June 8 2023 | Epik.com and its domain registrar platform were sold to Epik LLC, owned by Registered Agents Inc., following debt repayment and allegations of financial misconduct by Rob Monster. |
| September 2022 | Rob Monster stepped down as CEO and appointed Brian Royce as his successor, initiating a leadership transition. |
| October 4 2021 | Anonymous released further data from the breach, including disk images and data belonging to the Republican Party of Texas. |
| September 29 2021 | Anonymous released additional data from the Epik breach, including 300 gigabytes of bootable disk images and API keys for third-party services. |
| September 19 2021 | Epik began formally informing customers about the data breach. |
| September 16 2021 | Rob Monster confirmed the hack during a public video conference, which was described by Le Monde as an unusual response to a cybersecurity incident. |
| September 15 2021 | Epik sent an email to customers notifying them of a security incident following initial denials of the data breach. |
| September 13 2021 | Hackers identifying as Anonymous announced a massive data breach of Epik, obtaining approximately 180 gigabytes of personal data including 15 million email addresses, domain registration information, employee emails, and private keys. |
| January 6 2021 | Parler social network was denied hosting and web services after being used to help plan the storming of the U.S. Capitol. |
| 2020 | Braden Pollock resigned from the Epik board, citing ideological differences. |
| October 2020 | PayPal terminated services to Epik, citing financial risk concerns. The termination was allegedly related to issues with Epik's Masterbucks alternative currency and potential tax evasion implications. |
| June 2020 | The r/The_Donald subreddit was banned, leading to the creation of Patriots.win (formerly TheDonald.win) as its successor forum. |
| 2019 | Epik acquired web hosting company Sibyl Systems Ltd., which was known for providing hosting services to Gab after its previous host terminated services. |
| 2019 | Peterson left the company after a company staff meeting where Monster asked employees to watch the Christchurch mosque shootings video, which Peterson claimed was being presented as 'proof' the attack was faked. |
| August 2019 | Epik began providing web hosting services to 8chan after the platform was taken offline following the 2019 El Paso shooting. In the same month, web services company Voxility banned Epik for hosting 8chan. |
| August 9 2019 | Cloud hosting provider Linode informed Epik of service termination due to concerns about 8chan. |
| February 2019 | Epik acquired BitMitigate, a cybersecurity company based in Vancouver, Washington. Nicholas Lim, BitMitigate's founder, briefly served as Epik's chief technology officer. |
| December 2018 | Tal Moore left the Epik board over the company's decision to host Gab. |
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