Activists vow to expose Elon Musk's homes in billionaire doxing campaign

A self-described underground activist network says it is done hiding. In a press release Monday, the group announced it will begin openly doxing billionaires this month, starting with a file mapping the homes of Elon Musk, his brother Kimbal, and Tesla's board, plus the investors and suppliers keeping the company running.

The group calls itself the Capytistas, a riff on the Zapatistas, the Indigenous insurgents of southern Mexico. Two members told WIRED anonymously that they spent the past year assembling dossiers on billionaires and their top lieutenants using nearly every tool a private investigator has, and a few they don't. They describe themselves as an international mix of activists, researchers, journalists and artists, with many working in sealed-off silos that keep members from knowing each other's names.

The ambition is big. The Capytistas say coming releases will include more than 150 home addresses, most never reported before, and more than 3,500 records on people with a combined $1.4 trillion in wealth, along with reporting on what the group alleges are criminal exploits and security lapses. They say they have raised more than $1.2 million from what one member called a heartening number of wealthy class traitors.

Most of the digging runs on property records, court filings, and the LLCs and trusts the rich use to buy real estate, with occasional forays into physical surveillance, human infiltration and location data sold through ad markets. WIRED reviewed a copy of the Musk dossier, which sorts targets into tiers: Musk as the primary target, Tesla chair Robyn Denholm and Kimbal Musk as secondary, and investors like Vanguard and BlackRock plus nearly 40 suppliers as tertiary, listed only by office, factory or mine. Tesla's press office and investor relations team did not respond to requests for comment.

Musk is the opening act, not the main event, according to the group. Members say his file is among their smallest and he ranks among their least important targets, chosen first because nobody draws more public anger. They point to President Joe Biden's January 2025 farewell address warning of an oligarchy taking shape in America, and to Musk's more than $700 million in federal election spending since 2023, roughly the equivalent of 15 million typical online donations.

The backlash they hope to ride is already documented. An FBI-DHS bulletin released under public records law tallied attacks on Tesla vehicles and dealerships in at least nine states within months of Musk's arrival in Washington, and other records show analysts warning police about multiplying boycotts and protests. In Nevada, analysts issued formal guides for fighting electric-vehicle battery fires, which they said can take up to 8,000 gallons of water. The tactic itself is nothing new: an anonymous site called DOGEQuest posted what it claimed were addresses of Tesla owners and DOGE staff in March 2025, and hackers published names and work contacts for over 40,000 DHS employees and contractors last week.