CEO and co-founder of social media platform Gab said the site had suffered a data breach. WIRED reported that the far-right platform had more than 70 gigabytes of data, and 40 million posts, leaked by a hacktivist who self-identifies as "JaXpArO and My Little Anonymous Revival Project."
Gab became increasingly popular after Twitter banned Donald Trump's account from his platform, and specially after Parler was hacked and went offline, and users migrated to the platform. According to WIRED, the hacktivist siphoned that data out of Gab's backend databased in an effort to expose the far-right platform users, mostly comprised of promoters of former president Trump's election-stealing conspiracies, large numbers of Qanon conspiracy theorists, white nationalists, and other right-wing users.