Parler itself wasn't hacked, but breach exposed user data: Researchers - Business Insider

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While Twitter was buzzing about a fake Parler data leak, a hacker says he actually breached some user data from the conservative social network

A screenshot of stolen files was posted and reposted as truth. But there was no hack of Parler. The screenshot was, by all appearances, spurious. occur, when a third-party vendor's misconfigured cloud server was exploited by hackers, who say they grabbed significant user data. Parler, which is booming among right-wing users disenchanted with the big social networks and their approach to content moderation, has cited its privacy and security as a key differentiator.

Other researchers reviewed the data, and said it was significant. Security researcher John Jackson told Business Insider that passwords, photos, email addresses and "so much data it's not even funny" from several companies' users were included in the exposed data. Two other researchers who saw the data separately confirmed those findings to Business Insider.

But he said he thought no private data from Parler users – which he said now number 11 million – was exposed, except profile pictures used in some of the emails. Larry Ward, president of Political Media, disputed that. He called his operation "an enterprise-level, proprietary" content management system. He also gave a different account from Matze about Parler users' data being accessed.

 

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