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Gab's passwords, logins, etc are now available to disinfo researchers, journalists, and social scientists. #transparency https://t.co/89Dspe16dl
— Robert Caruso (@robertcaruso) March 1, 2021
"According to DDoSecrets' Best, the hacker says that they pulled out Gab's data via a SQL injection vulnerability in the site"
— Logan McDonald (@_loganmcdonald) March 1, 2021
Gab is open source so you can follow along as they remove random search functions in an attempt to make their hellsite secure: https://t.co/6uSiKyd6jw! https://t.co/UiQ7jVFR6I pic.twitter.com/PXrIBKwqff
Opsec threats ranked:
— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) March 1, 2021
3. Nation/State attackers
2. Ransomware
1. [TRANSPHOBIC SLUR] DEMON HACKERS https://t.co/AgCm34RrrA
On Friday I contacted Gab about a major breach of their backend. Their CEO responded with a blog post accusing me of "assisting the hacker in his efforts to smear our business." He followed up today w/ another post about "[transphobic slur] demon hackers." https://t.co/06xxRl5gaW
— Andy Greenberg (@a_greenberg) March 1, 2021
According to DDoSecrets' Best, the hacker says that they pulled out Gab's data via a SQL injection vulnerability in the site https://t.co/Rcxou6XqpW
— Chris Wysopal (@WeldPond) March 1, 2021
Beginning to look like the internet isn't a very safe place to be a Nazi after all.https://t.co/rnKGI9izN9
— Mallory Moore (@Chican3ry) March 1, 2021
FBI's job investigating 1/6 just got a lot easier. https://t.co/yhB2zuBXYM
— Joshua Holland (@JoshuaHol) March 1, 2021
Gab, the far-right social network where insurrectionists planned and boasted about storming the Capitol, was hacked. #DDoSecrets says it’ll make 70GB of passwords, private posts, & more available to researchers, journalists, & social scientists. https://t.co/woTk53fZZ2 via @wired
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) March 1, 2021
why deal with a genuine security issue when you can blame the radical left or whatever bogeyman you feel like summoning today? https://t.co/BAqs1v52t8
— Seyward Darby (@seywarddarby) March 1, 2021
Is it too late to nominate a pwnie award for shittiest vendor response? https://t.co/LM72oXpm0E
— Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) March 1, 2021
"For groups, where passwords are meant to be shared for users to join, we do not encrypt this info as is noted in our interface. DMs were only live a few weeks & are not currently a feature supported, so we expect the # of affected accounts to be low." https://t.co/tCDBxonuW0
— Distributed Denial of Secrets (@DDoSecret) February 28, 2021
Wired's @a_greenberg reports that Gab was hacked.
— Nick Martin (@nickmartin) March 1, 2021
Andrew Torba, the founder of the Twitter knock off, responded by... calling people names.
This is what happens when fighting the culture wars is more important than keeping your users safe. https://t.co/Wuv0QW4oPB
Release: #GabLeaks (70GB) includes public & private posts, user profiles, hashed passwords, DMs, etc, from the far-right social media site Gab. Over 70,000 messages in more than 19,000 chats, by 15,000 users. Limited distribution due to PII: https://t.co/gdsnyupbd1
— Distributed Denial of Secrets (@DDoSecret) March 1, 2021
NEW: Far-Right Platform Gab Has Been Hacked—Including Private Data https://t.co/FaeQDfQTgI
— Emma Best ?️?? Demon Hacker (@NatSecGeek) March 1, 2021
The transparency group #DDoSecrets will make the 70GB of passwords, private posts, and more available to researchers, journalists, and social scientists.
Hey Gabbies. Guess what? All your info (including passwords and group passwords) was hacked. 70 GB of Gab data equating to over 40 million posts will be shared with journalists, social scientists, and researchers. Hope you didn't do anything bad on there! https://t.co/JGcaw1a3z9
— PatriotTakes ?? (@patriottakes) March 1, 2021
WIRED: Far-Right Platform Gab Has Been Hacked—Including Private Data
— JΞSŦΞR ✪ ΔCŦUΔL³³°¹ (@th3j35t3r) March 1, 2021
The transparency group DDoSecrets says it will make the 70GB of passwords, private posts, and more available to researchers, journalists, and social scientists.https://t.co/n2GUy1HeQ6
The right is terrible at a lot of things, but they are really terrible at data security ?https://t.co/LSHRwsHTvm
— Brad Batt for TN State Sanity ✊?✊?✊? (@bradbatt) March 1, 2021
Hacktivism is bigger than ever. Now far-right-friendly site Gab has been hacked, and leaked private posts are being made available to journalists and researchers.
— Joseph Menn (@josephmenn) March 1, 2021
Wired story: https://t.co/y2DnQY8eht
Beginning to look like the internet isn't a very safe place to be a Nazi after all.https://t.co/rnKGI9izN9
— Mallory Moore (@Chican3ry) March 1, 2021
Far-Right Platform Gab Has Been Hacked—Including Private Data | WIRED https://t.co/nVG583iGMO
— Chris Sampson (@TAPSTRIMEDIA) March 1, 2021
The Hack Leak Combo is here to stay... And it's evolving. Important hack and decision made by DDoSecrets // You can read the full story here https://t.co/NrZQsAPCSN pic.twitter.com/aoPr1g6tMC
— Gabriella “Biella” Coleman (@BiellaColeman) March 1, 2021
“Far-Right Platform Gab Has Been Hacked—Including Private Data
— Kassandra Seven (@KassandraSeven) March 1, 2021
The transparency group DDoSecrets says it will make the 70GB of passwords, private posts, and more available to researchers, journalists, and social scientists.” https://t.co/dPtvDIRHWN
Mobile spyware fan Saudi Crown Prince accused by US intel of Khashoggi death.
— Fabrizio Bustamante (@Fabriziobustama) March 1, 2021
By @TheRegister #Spyware #CyberSecurity #Hacked#MobileSecurity #IoT #IoTSecurity
Cc: @AghiathChbib @robmay70@BillMew @DrJDrooghaag @AshokNellikar @missdkingsbury@archonsechttps://t.co/JbsErl6EqM pic.twitter.com/0ZsUnaqQn7
— ??? (@TVRav) March 1, 2021
ICYMI: #GabLeaks, because when Parler shut down, the worst people on the internet needed another place to go: https://t.co/862K0UHXjm
— mentally ill trans demon hacker (@bbhorne) March 2, 2021
Then there's the @WIRED piece from @a_greenberg, a top-notch journo I've got a lot of respect for based on previous pieces he's written and many discussions I've had with him personally: https://t.co/JHp0nMNE0a
— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 2, 2021
Far-Right Platform Gab Has Been Hacked—Including Private Data - https://t.co/bo7HHthilN #identitäre #rex
— Dietmar Muhlbock (@deltamikeplus) March 1, 2021
Two thoughts on this:
— ?????? ????? (@WrrrdNrrrdGrrrl) March 2, 2021
1. We live in a world where we are relatively powerless over our data and can only live in hope that hackers are on our side, and
2. It is objectively funny that these assholes fell for SQL injection in 20 goddamn 21.https://t.co/nrc0qpxyD3
Fniss.
— Lena Hansson ???? (@LenaHansson130) March 1, 2021
Far-Right Platform Gab Has Been Hacked—Including Private Datahttps://t.co/yA8geEjebW
From what I understand, the Parler data was the result of scraping publicly available info in an automated fashion.
— ClearingTheFog (@clearing_fog) March 1, 2021
This, OTOH, appears to be a hack, and could potentially be illegal.
It includes passwords and private posts.https://t.co/PsPXHoT3uJ
“the hacked data includes not only all of Gab's public posts and profiles...but also private group and private individual account posts and messages, as well as user passwords and group passwords. "’It contains pretty much everything on Gab’” https://t.co/x9yPPBoE2k
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) March 1, 2021
Gab got hacked. https://t.co/Te1GN24Fcd
— ₿ Michelle Ray ₿ (@GaltsGirl) March 1, 2021
How to fail at PR after a data-breach:
— Cem Paya (@randomoracle) March 1, 2021
- Wired reaches out to Gab for comment
- Gab clowns respond with blog post, accuse Wired of "assisting the hacker in his efforts to smear our business"
?#GabLeakshttps://t.co/QUv3ZPv3vM
Well isn't this the greatest little story about @OlinCollege by @ampressman. You are welcome to stop by our fields anytime for a look-see to meet more Olin entrepreneurs. https://t.co/yM9HD32sd0
— Anne-Marie Dorning (@BostonAnnemarie) March 2, 2021