Impact & Downstream Threats
This breach carries moderate risk due to the nature of exposed data fields and the scale of affected records.
- Credential stuffing against reused passwords across other platforms
- Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses
Breach Intelligence
Executive Summary
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.
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Data Points Exposed
Dark Web Verification
Status: Confirmed
- Dataset containing approximately 66K records identified in breach intelligence sources.
- The data is indexed and searchable across breach notification platforms.
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Frequently Asked Questions
In February 2021, Gab experienced a data breach that exposed approximately 66K records containing personal information.
The exposed data includes fields such as email address, full name, messages and chat:private message, password, profile photo:avatar.
Approximately 66K records were affected based on current breach intelligence.
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