Gab, the Twitter-like social networking service known for its far-right userbase, has reportedly been hacked – putting more than 40 million public and private posts, messages, as well as user profiles and hashed passwords, at risk of exposure. The 70 GB leak of data fell into the hands of activist group Distributed Denial of Secrets (also known as DDoSecrets) – which was banned from Twitter last year after it published sensitive data stolen from US law enforcement agencies.

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