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Gab Hacked; Group Promises “Gold Mine” Of Info On “Militias, Neo-Nazis, QAnon”
The free speech alternative to Twitter, Gab has been hacked, with those behind the action promising to release a treasure trove of information including passwords, private posts, and messages.
The hacking group calling itself ‘DDoSecrets’ says it has obtained 70-gigabytes of data, and has dubbed it “Gableaks”.
DDoSecrets cofounder Emma Best told Wired that the data “contains pretty much everything on Gab, including user data and private posts, everything someone needs to run a nearly complete analysis on Gab users and content.”
“It’s another gold mine of research for people looking at militias, neo-Nazis, the far right, QAnon and everything surrounding January 6,” Best claims.
Gab released a statement Gab announcing that it is “aware of a vulnerability” on its platform, claiming it has fixed it.
Torba charged that Wired is “in direct contact with the hacker and [was] essentially assisting the hacker in his efforts to smear our business and hurt you, our users.”
The Gab CEO labelled those behind the action “mentally ill tranny demon hackers”, further suggesting that they are “The same people” who “targeted law enforcement officers and their family members last summer.”
In addition to Trump, the hackers also claim that they have obtained the passwords of Infowars’ Alex Jones, Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.
It is claimed that so far neither Wired nor DDoSecrets has attempted to decrypt the passwords, or gain access to the accounts.
Far-Right Platform Gab Has Been Hacked—Including Private Data
https://www.wired.com/story/gab-hack-data-breach-ddosecrets/
That is not good news.
Gab hacked...
@#$& !!!
The hacking group calling itself ‘DDoSecrets’ says it has obtained 70-gigabytes of data, and has dubbed it “Gableaks”.
DDoSecrets cofounder Emma Best told Wired that the data “contains pretty much everything on Gab, including user data and private posts, everything someone needs to run a nearly complete analysis on Gab users and content.”
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Is Emma Best under arrest yet for cyber crimes? Why not?
The online comic strip XKCD had an episode on it back in 2010...
Trump doesn’t post on gab. Gab just made a back up site that transferred POTUS twitter posts to Gab. Torba would be thrilled if POTUS were to post there I think.
If they haven’t decrypted anything then the whole purpose at this point is to get people to shy away from the medium.
It’s one thing to get 70 gigs of data, it’s a whole other as to whether it’s readable info or hexadecimal soup...