====== Gab ======

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**Gab** is an American social media platform based in [[united_states:texas:Dallas]], [[united_states:Texas]].

===== History =====

Gab was founded in August 2016 by [[Andrew Torba]].((//Gab - Crunchbase Company Profile & Funding.// Crunchbase. Retrieved April 8, 2023, from https://crunchbase.com/organization/gab-online))

===== Data Breach =====

  * 70GB of gab posts, profiles, hashed passwords and DMs (([[https://ddosecrets.com/wiki/GabLeaks|DDOSecrets Gableaks]])) 

=== Other Security Concerns ===
  * The site had numerous security issues over the years, including leaking IPs through link previews, and keeping payment data on their servers. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20190301153238im_/https://images.encyclopediadramatica.rs/thumb/d/dc/Gab_payment1.jpg/500px-Gab_payment1.jpg|screenshot]] (([[https://providencepost.com/torba-grift-of-gab/]]))
  * Gab's CTO threatened using back-end data to build profiles of users considered "subversives" (([[https://archive.is/Z7MXi|Archive]]))

===== External links =====

  * [[https://wiki.whiteroseintelligence.com/en/Gab|White Rose Wiki]]
  * [[https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gab-online|Crunchbase]]
  * [[https://gab.com/|Website]]
  * [[https://proteuscyber.com/pl/privacy-database/news/3545-rookie-coding-mistake-prior-to-gab-hack-came-from-sites-cto-ars-technica|
Rookie coding mistake prior to Gab hack came from site’s CTO | Ars Technica]]