Far-right social media platform hacked
 

Gab loses passwords and private communications.

The far-right social media platform Gab says a trove of its contents has been stolen in a security breach -- including passwords and private communications.

The WikiLeaks-style group Distributed Denial of Secrets is revealing what it calls 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 right-wing users.

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.

DDoSecrets cofounder Emma Best says that the hacked data includes not only all of Gab's public posts and profiles -- except for any photos or videos uploaded to the site -- but also private group and private individual account posts and messages, as well as user passwords and group passwords.

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