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Gab Data Exposure

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Incident Overview

The 70 GB data of Gab, a social networking platform that supports Bitcoin, was hacked. Gab has handed over the hacked data to the reporting website Distributed Denial of Secrets. Emma Best, founder of Distributed Denial of Secrets, said that the hacked data included public posts, personal information and passwords, and private account posts and messages.

Sources & References

Original incident referencehttps://www.coindesk.com/markets/2021/03/01/gab-refuge-for-the-deplatformed-hacked-for-pretty-much-everything-including-trump-data/ (opens in a new tab)

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