Gab is an American social media platform based in Dallas, Texas.
History
Gab was co-founded in August 2016 by Andrew Torba and Ekrem Büyükkaya, using crowdfunding platform StartEngine.[1][2]
Security concerns
Gab's website has had numerous security issues over the years. This includes leaking IP addresses through link previews, and keeping sensitive payment data on their public servers.[3]
Distributed Denial of Service hosts a page on its wiki with 70GB of posts, profiles, hashed passwords, and direct messages from a Gab data breach. On March 2, 2021, Proteus-Cyber reported that the breach was the result of a hacker "exploiting a garden-variety security flaw known as an SQL injection" pushed through by Gab's Chief Technology Officer, Fosco Marotto.[4]
On March 3, 2024, Gab CEO Rob Colbert threatened to use back-end data to build profiles of users considered “subversives.”[5]
External links
Further reading:
- April 8, 2024: "Lessons from Alt-Tech Failures" by Gabriel of Libre Solutions Network
Gab - Crunchbase Company Profile & Funding. Crunchbase. Retrieved April 8, 2023, from https://crunchbase.com/organization/gab-online ↩︎
Gab. StartEngine. Retrieved November 30, 2020, from https://web.archive.org/web/20201130113341/https://www.startengine.com/gab ↩︎
Andrew Torba And The Grift Of Gab. (2023, March 16). The Providence Post. http://archive.today/2024.03.03-093634/https://providencepost.com/torba-grift-of-gab/ ↩︎
Goodin, D. (2021, March 2). Rookie coding mistake prior to Gab hack came from site’s CTO | Ars Technica. Proteus-Cyber. http://archive.today/2024.04.11-185444/https://proteuscyber.com/pl/privacy-database/news/3545-rookie-coding-mistake-prior-to-gab-hack-came-from-sites-cto-ars-technica ↩︎
Rob Colbert [@shadowknight412]. (2024, March 3). Rob Colbert on Gab: “Act like you know about what I’m assembling behin….” Gab Social. http://archive.today/2024.03.04-183359/https://gab.com/shadowknight412/posts/112036244991908606 ↩︎
