[Universal110]

Recently in a blog post by gab, they claim that there was an alleged data breach but they did not find any signs of a data breach.

Today we received an inquiry from reporters about an alleged data breach. We have searched high and low for chatter on the breach on the Internet and can find nothing. We can only presume the reporters, who write for a publication that has written many hit pieces on Gab in the past, are in direct contact with the hacker and are essentially assisting the hacker in his efforts to smear our business and hurt you, our users.

I was wondering if anyone knew about this and if there was an actual data breach.

[Oni]

That's embarrassing. It doesn't sound like they're able to ascertain if there was even a breach, or how it occurred.

[mothered]

As per the article below, the CEO of Gab Is denying that the breach took place.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/gab-data-breac...59411.html

[Oni]

According to the CEO, "mentally ill tranny demon hackers" are attacking them. It is claimed the compromised data equates to 70GB.

Spoiler:

[mothered]

A snippet from this article:

Passwords for private groups are unencrypted

I'm at a loss as to why they (or anyone for that matter) would store user credentials In that fashion.

[Universal110]

There was ANOTHER data breach on Gab. This is just embarrassing to the site and Andrew torba https://www.pcmag.com/news/gab-social-ne...ikes-again

On Monday, a hacker known as "JaXpArO" hijacked the Gab account for the site’s founder, Andrew Torba, and posted a note claiming the social network was still compromised. "Dear Andrew, if you value transparency so much why do you keep lying to your despicable users?” JaXpArO wrote. “It was so easy to hack you maybe I'm not the first?”

[mothered]

There was ANOTHER data breach on Gab. This is just embarrassing to the site and Andrew torba https://www.pcmag.com/news/gab-social-ne...ikes-again

On Monday, a hacker known as "JaXpArO" hijacked the Gab account for the site’s founder, Andrew Torba, and posted a note claiming the social network was still compromised. "Dear Andrew, if you value transparency so much why do you keep lying to your despicable users?” JaXpArO wrote. “It was so easy to hack you maybe I'm not the first?”

Embarrassing Is an understatement.

You'd think they would've patched all vulnerabilities when they were first compromised. They only have themselves to blame.