Hacker leaks info of pro-Trump GETTR members online

A hacker has leaked claims to have breached pro-Trump GETTR and leaked the private information of almost 90,000 members on a hacking forum.

GETTR is a new pro-Trump social media platform created by Jason Miller, a former Trump advisor, the Twitter-like platform suffered a data breach.

The security breach comes a few hours after its launch on July 4.

A threat actor claimed to have scraped the private information of almost 90,000 members by abusing an unsecured API and published it on the RAID hacking forum.

The exposed data includes member’s email address, nickname, profile name, profile descriptions, birth year, location, personal website, avatar URL, background images, and other data.

The data published on the hacking forum belongs to two lots, which were respectively shared on July 1 and July 5.

The first set of data was the result of a scraping activity, while the second one was obtained by abusing the unsecured GETTR API.

Multiple websites confirmed the authenticity of the data.

“The leaked data was authentic, according to checks performed by The Record.” reported The Record.

The availability of such kind of information exposes members of the social network at risk of cyberattacks, such as phishing attempts and frauds.

Members of the social network should remain vigilant on any suspicious message pretending to be from GETTR.

Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook

[adrotate banner=”9″]

[adrotate banner=”12″]

Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, data breach)

[adrotate banner=”5″]

[adrotate banner=”13″]

Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.