SaysWho? Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 Far-Right Platform Gab Has Been Hacked—Including Private Data | WIRED WWW.WIRED.COM The transparency group DDoSecrets says it will make the 70GB of passwords, private posts, and more available to researchers, journalists, and social scientists. Quote Days later, Parler was hacked and then dropped by Amazon web hosting, knocking the site offline. Now Gab, which inherited some of Parler's displaced users, has been badly hacked too. An enormous trove of its contents has been stolen—including what appears to be passwords and private communications. On Sunday night the WikiLeaks-style group Distributed Denial of Secrets is revealing what it calls calling “GabLeaks,” a collection of more than 70 gigabytes of Gab data representing more than 40 million posts. DDoSecrets says a hacktivist who self-identifies as "JaXpArO and My Little Anonymous Revival Project" siphoned that data out of Gab's backend databases in an effort to expose the platform's largely rightwing users. Those Gab patrons, whose numbers have swelled after Parler went offline, include large numbers of Qanon conspiracy theorists, white nationalists, and promoters of former president Donald Trump's election-stealing conspiracies that resulted in the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill. Quote DDoSecrets says it's not publicly releasing the data due to its sensitivity and the vast amounts of private information it contains. Instead the group says it will selectively share it with journalists, social scientists, and researchers. WIRED viewed a sample of the data, and it does appear to contain Gab users' individual and group profiles—their descriptions and privacy settings—public and private posts, and passwords. Gab CEO Andrew Torba acknowledged the breach in a brief statement Sunday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Keyser_Soze Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 Didn't even know that was a thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SuperSpreader Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 1 hour ago, Keyser_Soze said: Didn't even know that was a thing. I'm definitely not in on the racist hellhole loop either! We did it!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chakoo Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 It was inevitable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 Gab, a haven for pro-Trump conspiracy theories, has been hacked again ARSTECHNICA.COM A failure to purge authentication tokens taken in the first breach leads to a second one. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Uaarkson Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 What a bunch of maroons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LazyPiranha Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 11 hours ago, Jason said: Gab, a haven for pro-Trump conspiracy theories, has been hacked again ARSTECHNICA.COM A failure to purge authentication tokens taken in the first breach leads to a second one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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