Parler has been booted off by Amazon from its AWS cloud platform while Apple and Google have already suspended its apps from their respective app stores. As a result, Parler’s apps and website have been offline since Monday morning.
Parler Goes Offline
A right-wing social network called Parler went offline earlier this Monday morning after Apple, Amazon, and Google booted the platform. The network was used to plan the storming of the US capital the previous week.
Now it is hit by a massive data scrape as security researchers collected massive data reserves before it went offline. The app was much popular among supporters of Donald Trump.
80 TB Worth of Data Downloaded
Security researchers claim that they downloaded around 70 to 80 TB data comprising exclusive posts, photos, videos, and messages from the January 6 attack, before Amazon Web Services and multiple other tech firms de-platformed the service. The data is now being distributed online.
Parler’s System Reportedly Allowing to Create Admin Accounts
A researcher using the alias donk_enby, who first announced the data scrape, posted on Twitter that most researchers found out about Parler’s seizure after details of its security partner Okta was revealed online by a B2B messaging service provider Twilio.
According to Cyber News, soon after security researchers started creating accounts as admin users in Parler’s system since its phone and ..
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