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🚨🚨🚨 EMERGENCY! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! ATTENTION ALL GAB USERS! 🚨🚨🚨 — Demonic Tranny Hacks into Gab Servers and Steals All Users’ Personal Data Threatening to Release the 70GB File Including Every Single User’s Unencrypted Password, Private Posts, Private Groups and Private Messages (redpilled.ca)
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– buckfoomers 13 points ago +14 / -1

lmao, Gab's security was so bad they stored unencrypted passwords?

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– WakandanScientist 17 points ago +17 / -0

Passwords for private groups are unencrypted. User account passwords are hashed according to the article.

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– itsanoobsgame [S] -3 points ago +1 / -4

what article

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– WakandanScientist 7 points ago +7 / -0

The Wired article that your link references. Hopefully Torba & co. didn't get sloppy on the encryption scheme.

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– Tendies_or_GTFO 5 points ago +6 / -1

Really?

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– O_A_N 6 points ago +6 / -0

FTFA

Passwords for private groups are unencrypted, which Torba says the platform discloses to users when they create one. Individual user account passwords appear to be cryptographically hashed

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– knuckles_ghost 1 point ago +3 / -2

Makes you wonder if the banks dropped them over PCI compliance.

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