In total, DDoSecrets has leaked 70 GB worth of sensitive data belonging to registered Gab users.
DDoSecrets, a group of hacktivists has leaked a massive trove of data belonging to Gab.com. Gab is a right-wing social network platform claiming to offer “freedom of speech” with no censorship whatsoever.
It is worth noting Gab is described as a haven for extremists including white supremacists, neo-Nazis, white nationalists, the alt-right, and QAnon conspiracy theorists.
What happened
On February 26th,2020, Gab.com published a blog post in which the company addressed hacking-related rumors and denied that it has suffered a data breach.
The company then went offline mysteriously for a short period of time a week ago and insisted that there was some issue with Bitcoin wallet spam which affected only a few accounts.
Gab’s CEO Andrew Torba claimed that they were contacted by reporters who talked about an alleged data breach that may have leaked an archive of posts, DMs, profiles, and hashed passwords.
Torba continued to take a stance where he defended the company and said that there was no independent confirmation of a breach that took place and also claimed that their site does not collect much personal information about its users anyway.
They then proceeded to deflect the blame by accusing unnamed reporters of working with hackers to smear its reputation. Torba admits the site is aware that it had a vulnerability to an SQL injection attack and a flaw that they patched last week, followed by a security audit that is still going on.
