Gab data breach: 66K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2021-03-03
In February 2021, the alt-tech social network service Gab suffered a data breach. The incident exposed almost 70GB of data including 4M user accounts, a small number of private chat logs and a list of public groups and public posts made to the service. Only a small number of accounts included email addresses and / or passwords stored as bcrypt hashes with a total of 66.5k unique email addresses being exposed across the corpus of data. Exposed data: avatars, email addresses, names, passwords, private messages, usernames. The breach dates from Feb 26, 2021; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Mar 3, 2021.
What to do
- If you had a Gab account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
Sources
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