Breaches
1
1 verified
Records Exposed
67K
Total across all breaches
Data Types Leaked
6
1 high risk
Latest Breach
2021
Gab

Breach History

Gab
Feb 2021Critical
66.5K
Records exposed
6
Data types leaked
Verified
Status

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 Types
AvatarsEmail addressesNamesPasswordsPrivate messagesUsernames
Incident Status
Data breachYes
Data brokerNo
Policy contradictionsNo
Exposed Data Types
AvatarsLow risk
Email addressesLow risk
NamesLow risk
PasswordsHigh risk
Private messagesLow risk
UsernamesLow risk