US right-wing platform Gab acknowledges it was hacked


Torba claimed in a Twitter message Sunday that ‘demon hackers (I’m very serious) are attacking Gab right now’, also calling members of the group ‘mentally ill’ and using a slur to refer to them as members of the trans community. — Bloomberg

WASHINGTON: The CEO of Gab, a social network favoured by the US political right, said the platform had been attacked by “demon hackers” after an activist group released user data described as an important resource for research on the far right.

The activist group called DDoSecrets Collective released the data over the weekend to Wired magazine, claiming it offered “a record of the culture” related to the violent siege of the US Capitol on Jan 6.

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