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Short version: Security researchers got admin access and downloaded 70Tb of Parler content before it went down. This also included content people had deleted after Jan 6, since it gets flagged as deleted but remains behind the scene visible to admin accounts.
https://cybernews.com/news/70tb-of-parler-users-messages-videos-and-posts-leaked-by-security-researchers/
A more technical description of how it happened:
https://i.imgur.com/R1GndBl.png
https://i.imgur.com/q1i2l7G.png
https://cybernews.com/news/70tb-of-parler-users-messages-videos-and-posts-leaked-by-security-researchers/
Parler, a social network used to plan the storming of the U.S. Capitol last week, has been hit by a massive data scrape. Security researchers collected swaths of user data before the network went dark Monday morning after Amazon, Google, and Apple booted the platform.
The scrape includes user profile data, user information, and which users had administration rights for specific groups within the social network. Twitter user @donk_enby, who first announced about the scrape, claims that over a million video URLs, some deleted and private, were taken.
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Security researchers claim that the scrapped posts are linked to accounts that posted them, and some of the video and image data have geolocation information. That is said also to include data from Parler’s “Verified Citizens,” users of the network who verified their identity by uploading photographs of government-issued IDs, such as a driver’s license.
A more technical description of how it happened:
https://i.imgur.com/R1GndBl.png
https://i.imgur.com/q1i2l7G.png
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