Somebody clearly read the fake news and doesn't have a Gab account.
Gab doesn't have private messages, and Gab doesn't keep IP addresses.
So, where is the evidence of a 'hack'? Care to show me since you are so 'informed' about it? And a link to the site hosting the public information isn't proof of anything other then someone wrote a script to gather all posts on gab and put it in one file. I have seen the 'file' it doesn't have shit in it.
It's my understanding that someone used an SQL injection attack. Apparently the back end of Gab is freely available but Gab is out of date and got hit by an old bug.
Now the question is was there anything useful to steal? This post seems to indicate that they're going after the owner and the blackmailing is just an attempt to make him look bad. Even if they post some porn all he has to do is deny it and that's it. This was all done maliciously so you could technically deny anything the bad actors do. I find it odd that the person who stole any data thinks that they are valuable enough to pay off or even bother listening to.
The post doesn't appear on Torbas gab, and doesn't show up on any of the archived repositories either. I think this is just a LARP fake post floating around the internet.
Even if Gab was compromised, how would they have gained access to Torba's 'porn folder'? Did they hack his computer? Highly unlikely.
The SQL injection method they claim to have possibly used would only be useful if the attacker had a detailed overview of the exact SQL schema used in the database. It doesn't just give you full access to the database because you used it.
It is also telling that the only developer commentary being pushed by the tech sites is by a facebook developer. Leaving a git commit open ended was an incredibly dumb move, but it wasn't earth shattering by any means either. The more I read about this 'hack' attack the more I am convinced that it is much ado about nothing.
It almost seems like Torba's manufactured the entire thing, as the 'change' in the code Ars Technica and Wired have both pointed out as a smoking gun happened before Torba claimed they were hacked.
Any actual evidence Gab has been 'hacked'?
All I have seen is a repository of publicly available shit anyone could download if they took the time to do it.
I think this is more publicity stunts by Torba after the Trump name drops for 3 weeks straight didn't do shit for him.
Somebody clearly read the fake news and doesn't have a Gab account.
Gab doesn't have private messages, and Gab doesn't keep IP addresses.
So, where is the evidence of a 'hack'? Care to show me since you are so 'informed' about it? And a link to the site hosting the public information isn't proof of anything other then someone wrote a script to gather all posts on gab and put it in one file. I have seen the 'file' it doesn't have shit in it.
Evidence of the hack? show me.
It's my understanding that someone used an SQL injection attack. Apparently the back end of Gab is freely available but Gab is out of date and got hit by an old bug.
Now the question is was there anything useful to steal? This post seems to indicate that they're going after the owner and the blackmailing is just an attempt to make him look bad. Even if they post some porn all he has to do is deny it and that's it. This was all done maliciously so you could technically deny anything the bad actors do. I find it odd that the person who stole any data thinks that they are valuable enough to pay off or even bother listening to.
The post doesn't appear on Torbas gab, and doesn't show up on any of the archived repositories either. I think this is just a LARP fake post floating around the internet.
Even if Gab was compromised, how would they have gained access to Torba's 'porn folder'? Did they hack his computer? Highly unlikely.
The SQL injection method they claim to have possibly used would only be useful if the attacker had a detailed overview of the exact SQL schema used in the database. It doesn't just give you full access to the database because you used it.
It is also telling that the only developer commentary being pushed by the tech sites is by a facebook developer. Leaving a git commit open ended was an incredibly dumb move, but it wasn't earth shattering by any means either. The more I read about this 'hack' attack the more I am convinced that it is much ado about nothing.
It almost seems like Torba's manufactured the entire thing, as the 'change' in the code Ars Technica and Wired have both pointed out as a smoking gun happened before Torba claimed they were hacked.
Active sessions are not the same thing as stored IP addresses, they are determined by cookies stored on your browser, not logged IPs.