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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/03/gab-a-haven-for-pro-trump-conspiracy-theories-has-been-hacked-again/
Beleaguered social networking site Gab was breached on Monday, marking the second time in as many weeks that hackers have gained unauthorized access to a platform that caters to users pushing hate speech and pro-Trump conspiracy theories.
The compromise came to light after someone hijacked the account of Gab founder and CEO Andrew Torba and left a post criticizing him for not paying an 8 bitcoin ransom for the safe return of documents used to verify the identity of some users. The unknown hacker also accused Torba of failing to disclose the full extent of the earlier breach.
Shortly after the first breach was discovered, someone at Gab patched a critical SQL-injection vulnerability that was introduced into the website code by who has been assumed to be the CTO "Fosco Marotto".
Gab has been struggling to stay afloat for more than two years as it continues to provide a haven for hate speech and conspiracy theories. In 2017, Google removed the Gab app from the Play store for terms of service violations. A year later, web host GoDaddy terminated service to Gab after one of its users took to the site to criticize the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society shortly before killing 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue.
https://data-lead.com/person/name/Rob+Colbert/id/432655751/v/caeb1
In 2016/17 a self proclaimed CTO of GabAI, Robert Colbert, moved from Pittsburg to Jupiter, Florida to work with a fellow Trumper by the name of Bradford Williams. For a short time the two worked for the Trump campaign building Twitter bots and creating image based memes. Bradford recently tweeted about the FBI: https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile and in 2017 Colbert posted to Twitter he had been interviewed by the FBI, but it was not clear about what they were investigating.
Beleaguered social networking site Gab was breached on Monday, marking the second time in as many weeks that hackers have gained unauthorized access to a platform that caters to users pushing hate speech and pro-Trump conspiracy theories.
The compromise came to light after someone hijacked the account of Gab founder and CEO Andrew Torba and left a post criticizing him for not paying an 8 bitcoin ransom for the safe return of documents used to verify the identity of some users. The unknown hacker also accused Torba of failing to disclose the full extent of the earlier breach.
Shortly after the first breach was discovered, someone at Gab patched a critical SQL-injection vulnerability that was introduced into the website code by who has been assumed to be the CTO "Fosco Marotto".
Gab has been struggling to stay afloat for more than two years as it continues to provide a haven for hate speech and conspiracy theories. In 2017, Google removed the Gab app from the Play store for terms of service violations. A year later, web host GoDaddy terminated service to Gab after one of its users took to the site to criticize the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society shortly before killing 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue.
https://data-lead.com/person/name/Rob+Colbert/id/432655751/v/caeb1
In 2016/17 a self proclaimed CTO of GabAI, Robert Colbert, moved from Pittsburg to Jupiter, Florida to work with a fellow Trumper by the name of Bradford Williams. For a short time the two worked for the Trump campaign building Twitter bots and creating image based memes. Bradford recently tweeted about the FBI: https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile and in 2017 Colbert posted to Twitter he had been interviewed by the FBI, but it was not clear about what they were investigating.
