Snapshot · The Tucker Carlson Show
When Ryan Montgomery hacked a predator website run by politician Nathan Larson, he extracted a database containing 7,000 users' emails, usernames, and private messages.
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Montgomery traces his origin story to a single text message — three screenshots from a friend's wife showing a clear-web (not dark-web) forum where users were discussing what they would do to a child visible in a bathtub photo, captioned 'they have no idea what's going to happen to them tonight.' [1] — Ryan Montgomery "A friend's wife texted Ryan Montgomery three screenshots from a clear-web predator forum, including a post reading 'they have no idea what'…" 1:01:40 Something switched in his brain. He went home intending to simply DDoS the site offline, but instead got lucky: the site used a pirated Zenforo theme that had an unpatched vulnerability, giving him full server access. He extracted the database (excluding CSAM attachments to avoid possession charges) and found 7,000 users across four backups — the first of whom was Nathan Larson, a Virginia libertarian running for Congress. He delivered the database to local law enforcement, NCMEC, and IC3, then approached 11 media stations. Every outlet was interested; every legal team killed it. Six months later, Larson was arrested kidnapping and raping a 13-year-old girl in Colorado — without any mention of the website he ran. Project Veritas later picked up the story but shelved it under interim CEO Hannah Giles, who called it 'not a tidal wave,' frustrating the journalists who had done the legwork. It was Sean Ryan's podcast that finally broke the story viral, generating a clip with 10 million views in under 24 hours and eventually making it Sean Ryan's most-watched episode ever.
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A friend's wife texted Ryan Montgomery three screenshots from a clear-web predator forum, including a post reading 'they have no idea what's going to happen to them tonight' about a child. He went home, hacked the site using an unpatched theme vulnerability, and extracted a 7,000-user database — discovering the site was run by Virginia congressional candidate Nathan Larson. Six months of being ignored by law enforcement and media followed before Nathan Larson was arrested kidnapping a 13-year-old girl.
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