Gab

Information Leakage

Estimated loss

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VERDICT —UNRATED

Verdict pending. Auto-ingested incidents are reviewed before a public verdict is rendered.

▰ METHOD

Undisclosed

Root cause

Root-cause analysis not yet published. The incident description below contains all currently available signal — review the attack transaction directly for definitive forensics.

Forensic narrative

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. Attack method (per SlowMist): Information Leakage. Reported loss: -.

Primary source

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2021/03/01/gab-refuge-for-the-deplatformed-hacked-for-pretty-much-everything-including-trump-data/ ↗

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slowmist

Technical record