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Gab, a haven for pro-Trump conspiracy theories, has been hacked again

Aurich Lawson reader comments 48 with 34 posters participating, including story author Share this story Beleaguered social networking site Gab was breached on Monday, marking the second time in as many weeks that hackers have gained unauthorized access to a platform that caters to users pushing hate speech and pro-Trump conspiracy theories. The compromise came… Read More »

Rookie coding mistake prior to Gab hack came from site’s CTO

reader comments 146 with 85 posters participating, including story author Share this story Over the weekend, word emerged that a hacker breached far-right social media website Gab and downloaded 70 gigabytes of data by exploiting a garden-variety security flaw known as an SQL injection. A quick review of Gab’s open source code shows that the… Read More »

Trump’s is one of 15,000 Gab accounts that just got hacked

reader comments 148 with 81 posters participating Share this story The founder of the far-right social media platform Gab said that the private account of former President Donald Trump was among the data stolen and publicly released by hackers who recently breached the site. In a statement on Sunday, founder Andrew Torba used a transphobic… Read More »