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Former Trump advisor’s Gettr platform appeared to be briefly hacked Sunday
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05 Jul 2021 11:44
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u/VILLAIN
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u/None
05 Jul 2021 11:53
I haven't seen anything that confirms or even suggests a compromise of the platform. It looks to me as a handful of accounts brute-forced into using a dictionary attack over an API endpoint that did not enforce rate limiting of login attempts.
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u/VILLAIN
[OP]
05 Jul 2021 11:55
https://twitter.com/ZTPetrizzo/status/1411697118079860741 https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3xqva/gettr-is-the-trump-teams-buggy-leaky-twitter-clone
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u/None
05 Jul 2021 12:02
Thanks, that only further confirms my suspicion.
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