Gab Suffers Data Breach in Major Hack

Key Takeaways

• Gab has reportedly been hacked by Distributed Denial of Secrets.
• Distributed Denial of Secrets says more than 70GB of data has been breached, including Donald Trump’s account on the site.
• Popular among Bitcoin supporters, the right-wing website was briefly closed following a crypto-related scam in February.

More problems for Gab: the alternative social media platform appears to have been hacked over the weekend. 

Gab Hit by Hack 

Gab, a self-styled “Free Speech Social Network” whose user base includes far-right supporters and Bitcoin enthusiasts alike, has reportedly been hacked. 

Wired covered the attack Sunday after contacting the hacktivist group Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets). The newest section on the group’s website is titled “GabLeaks,” and includes a link to download 70GB worth of data. DDoSecrets says “it includes every private post and many private messages.”

The full description of the files reads: 

“70 GB of Gab public posts, private posts, user profiles, hashed passwords for users, DMs, and plaintext passwords for groups in SQL format, along with over 70,000 messages in more than 19,000 chats with over 15,000 users in plaintext format.”

DDoSecrets notes that the dataset has currently only been made available to journalists and researchers. The group’s co-founder, Emma Best, told WIRED that the data includes “pretty much everything” on Gab. 

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