As part of our ongoing commitment to improving the security, scalability, and performance of Gab Social I wanted to let the Gab community know our plans for the next few months. In early March we began to lay the groundwork for Gab Next, a totally rebuilt Gab Social on top of our HYDRA infrastructure.
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Dear Gab user:
What Happened?
We are writing to inform you that, on February 28th, 2021, Gab AI, Inc. (“Gab”) became aware that it was potentially the victim of security incident in which a bad actor gained unauthorized access to the systems and networks used to operate the Gab platform. We have reported the incident to law enforcement.
Best wishes and God bless. Andrew TorbaCEO, Gab.comJesus is KingMarch 21st, 2021
American Populism needs a proper platform.
To many in the Christian faith it may appear like all hope is lost. Christians are being persecuted around the world including in the United States of America. Critical race theory has subverted many churches and millions of people who claim to be Christians are spreading the false imitation gospel of “social justice” instead of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and distorting the Truth of God’s Word.
I received an email today that made my week and it was too good not to share with you all. It gives me hope and faith for the future of Christendom and thus the future of America. God is on the move, hallelujah!
When I first watched the video of Gov. Abbott saying Gab had “no place in Texas,” I truthfully thought it was a deepfake. There was no way that the Governor of Texas explicitly called out the website I run with my family from an undisclosed rural farm in Pennsylvania.
Every month 30 million people use Gab’s services to get access to the free flow of information online. Gab is the home of free speech in a world where Big Tech oligarchs have censored, deplatformed, and demonized tens of millions of good, honest, and decent people with whom they disagree politically.
I’m writing to update the Gab community with what we know about the breach that occurred this week. As I have already mentioned we are conducting our own internal investigation. We are also working with federal law enforcement to assist with their investigation of the breach, criminal ransom demands and the numerous threats of violence that were directed at our team. Finally, we have hired one of the best rapid response security teams in the world to investigate the breach.
Over the past few days our team has been working with the top rapid response security firm in the country to fully audit Gab’s infrastructure to get a better picture of what happened, what specifically was accessed, and why.
Over the weekend we received word that we had been subject to a hack that would be published by a third-party nonprofit organization, Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDS), which the Department of Homeland Security has described as “criminal hackers.”
Gab has been banned from three different banks over the course of the past three weeks. We operate a legal US business. We sell a software license to our GabPRO service along with hats, shirts, mugs, and other merchandise. The latest bank told us they are terminating our account because “the media has written bad things about your business.”
What happened?
At 6:09pm EST Gab became aware of several accounts that were posting bitcoin wallet spam and related content. At 6:25pm out of an abundance of caution we brought the site offline in order to immediately assess the situation, solve the problem, and get Gab back online as soon as possible. Because of our quick action zero bitcoin was sent to any of the addresses posted and the affected accounts have been secured.