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Trump Adviser Creates Social Media Site, Is Immediately Hacked

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Hackers Scrape 90,000 GETTR User Emails, Surprising No One
Just days after its launch, hackers have already found a way to take advantage of GETTR's buggy API to get the username, email address, and location of thousands of users.

by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
July 6, 2021, 11:06am

Hackers were able to scrape the email addresses and other data of more than 90,000 GETTR users.

On Tuesday, a user of a notorious hacking forum posted a database that they claimed was a scrape of all users of GETTR, the new social media platform launched last week by Trump’s former spokesman Jason Miller, who pitched it as an alternative to "cancel culture." The data seen by Motherboard includes email addresses, usernames, status, and location.

One of the people whose email is in the database confirmed to Motherboard that they are indeed registered to GETTR. Motherboard also verified the database by attempting to create an account with three email addresses that appear in the database. When doing that, the site displayed the message: "The email is taken," suggesting it's already registered.

It's unclear if the database contains the usernames and email addresses of all users on the site.

Alon Gal, the co-founder and CTO of cybersecurity firm Hudson Rock, found the forum post with the database.

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Gal argued that this incident should be considered a data breach.

"When threat actors are able to extract sensitive information due to neglectful API implementations, the consequence is equivalent to a data breach and should be handled accordingly by the firm and to be examined by regulators," he told Motherboard in an online chat.

GETTR did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent to an email address displayed on the app's Google Play page.

GETTR's rollout hasn't exactly been smooth. On July 4, the day of the site' official launch, a hacker broke into and defaced some of the site's most prominent users, including its founder Jason Miller, former CIA director Mike Pompeo, former Trump advisor Steve Bannon, and pro-Trump congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, as first reported by Insider.

The hacker told Insider that he targeted the site "just for fun" and that it was "easy" to hack.

"They should not publish the website before making sure everything, or at least almost everything, is secure," he said.

On the day of its launch, security and privacy researchers warned that GETTR's API was poorly programmed and had several bugs. One of them made it possible for someone to figure out whether a given person is on GETTR. Another bug exposed a user's list of muted and blocked accounts, according to former FTC chief technologist Ashkan Soltani.

Last week, cybersecurity reporter Zack Whittaker predicted that someone would soon scrape all the website's content. For now, no one has scraped all the content on the site—at least that we know—but tens of thousands of GETTR users have now had their email addresses exposed.
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I know that the whole Trump political brand has a reputation for corner cutting, but I'm always sort of shocked by these bits of news. Why didn't they spring for better content, done right?

It's not like a functioning platform wouldn't have recouped the costs.
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MAHAHAH.

Then again, it's not like Trump isn't hated enough that anything even remotely associated with his politics isn't already a target for every hacking group in existence.
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Gandalf wrote: 2021-07-07 07:34pm I know that the whole Trump political brand has a reputation for corner cutting, but I'm always sort of shocked by these bits of news. Why didn't they spring for better content, done right?

It's not like a functioning platform wouldn't have recouped the costs.
Most/all of the people in a position to make those calls don't know how to get better work done. And I guarantee you that when they hire someone to do the actual coding and website building work one of the main factors (probably more than cheapness even) is personal connections. So one way or another it's being done by guy who knows a guy and wants to do his buddy a favor. And that doesn't lead to good quality because they like everyone else from the top down are grifting and trying to get as much as they can for as little work as possible.
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Yeah I think it's an issue that competent coding costs money so they probably too the cheapest coder they could get and got what they paid for. Honestly these people seem incapable of thinking long term, so they tend to fail and fail badly when they do something that demands long term thinking.
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One example of that failure of long term thinking appears to be their lack of moderation tools leaving them unable to stop things like:

Sonic Smut Is Flooding Trump’s New Social Network
Sega's meme mascot is a fave of the internet hooligans causing a ruckus on GETTR
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Nary a month after the dramatic implosion of former president (and current Twitter refugee) Donald Trump’s attempted blogging career, the septuagenarian authoritarian’s “team” of grifting enablers has launched its latest attempt at a social network for folks who are just too darn patriotic for mainstream social media...and also for all sorts of Sonic the Hedgehog porn.

The unpleasantly named GETTR—Hillary Clinton lives rent-free in that dude’s head—is essentially a Twitter clone. Its slogan, “the marketplace of ideas,” suggests that inexplicably fence-sitting centrists might find it appealing as well, and that’s particularly true if they’re into furry vore artwork and memes about Sonic the Hedgehog getting pregnant.

That keeps coming up, doesn’t it? It seems that GETTR’s early launch (it was originally promised for Independence Day) has attracted a variety of leftist riff-raff from TikTok, weird Twitter and the like, and they’ve embraced the unsavory, Trump-associated birdsite wannabe as the perfect place to share degenerate hentai, furry porn, leftist Sonic memes, and stock photos of pudgy, aged men in their underwear.

QAnon genius Jordan Sather, who suggests drinking bleach to cure the ‘rona, noted that, “Shills are already hitting the #QAnon hashtag on GETTR hard. I won’t repost what I’m finding. Titties and bad words and stuff.”

“Stuff,” indeed. So far GETTR’s moderation safeguards haven’t stood a chance against the NSFW Communist mpreg onslaught, which has flooded venerable tags like #QAnon with the sorts of sexuality-threatening furotica that pass through MAGA uncles’ minds during Thanksgiving rants. It seems likely that a fair few decent, upstanding conspiracy theorists and proto-fascists are rapidly being forced to come to terms with the existence of a large chunk of the shitposting internet, or at least to acknowledge it outside of their secret bookmarks.

Sega’s speedy meme king is particularly well represented, with tags like #sonicfeet, #sonicismygod, #soniclovescommunism, #sonicmylove, and #sonic_came_in_my_bussy (ask your father about that one) tracking the sometimes-pregnant blue blur’s presence across the nascent social network for shitheads. But despite GETTR’s professed dedication to #FREEZEPEACH, a peek into accidentally leaked source code reveals its operators can add or remove “trending” topics at will. To arms, blue bussy brigade—you’re being censored!

It’s also quite easy to impersonate well-known conservative figures on the service, as evidenced by an account for Supreme Court justice “Brett Kavanaugh” enthusiastically sharing fetish images of a massive Sonic treading on a hapless fursona. I’m split on whether Hercules actor Kevin Sorbo’s profile is real or not. That fellow is a bit touched.

The prominence of Sonic amid the GETTR shitposting ruckus will come as no surprise to dedicated internetologists. Since his 1991 debut, Sega’s hedgehog has found a special place in fans’ hearts even as he’s acted as a gateway for an unknowable number into the realms of furrydom. His fandom’s persisted through the series’ many ups and downs, and in more recent years he’s become a key player in absurdist Twitter and TikTok memes that often bridge the gaps between the furry community, weird Twitter, overly online leftists, and places in between.

Unfortunately for GETTR and its would-be users, the torrent of furry, leftist filth shows no signs of stopping anytime soon, especially given the recent media attention. Maybe Mr. Trump, who actually hasn’t joined the fledgling service yet, will step in with his legendary negotiating skills to re-assert order and make GETTR great again. Great for something beside Sonic feet pics, I mean.
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