At least 200 Dutch children on doxing site aimed at extortion
The personal data of thousands of Dutch people, including at leat 200 Dutch children, is available online on a specialized doxing website aimed at extortion, RTL Nieuws discovered. The site has been online since 2018. The Dutch authorities know about it, but haven’t been able to take it down, the broadcaster wrote.
According to RTL, the website is a modern version of the pillory. Victims are presented using as much personal information as possible. Their “profile” also lists their “crimes,” ranging from cheating on Roblox and being an asshole to infidelity.
RTL contacted over 50 people listed on the site. Only a handful agreed to talk. One girl was 17 when someone posted her phone number and social media accounts on the website. They described her as a “pedophile” who “likes to play the whore,” among other things. “Do with this information what you want,” the poster wrote. She received a flood of messages, phone calls, photos of genitals, threats of rape. This has been goin gon for over a year.
The mother of a 13-year-old girl who ended up on the site in 2024 told RTL that her daughter attempted suicide due to the horrific messages and threats she received. A 24-year-old man told the broadcaster that he is still receiving psychiatric treatment a year after being extorted due to the consequences.
The site’s administrators profit from the suffering. Victims can pay $80 to have the data removed for the time being, or $400 to be permanently deleted. The option to have yoru data removed is not openly advertised. You have to contact an administrator via Telegram and ask.
When asked why the site was still online, a spokesperson for the Dutch National Police told RTL that combating doxing is very complicated. “Many of these types of sites are hosted abroad. The administrators are anonymous, and payments are made via crypto,” the police said. The police are “actively working on this problem” even if the work is “not always visible,” the police said.
Babette Keuning of the Offlimits expertise center for online abuse is unimpressed by the police’s efforts. “It’s actually absurd that this site is still online,” she told RTL. The site already lists nearly 200,000 victims, with new ones added every day. “We hope the supervisory authoriteis see this and take action,” Keuning said. “And if that doesn’t happen, we would like to talk to them about taking this site offline.”
