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Tech News: Hack the Planet

TechStuff

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Tech News, News, Technology

4.31.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The news is all about lots of hacking. Gab got hacked (again). A security camera company got hacked. And everyone is spying on everyone else. Learn more in today's episode!

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0:38.6

Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from IHeartRadio.

0:46.1

Hey there and welcome to Tech Stuff.

0:48.6

I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland.

0:50.6

I'm an executive producer with IHeartRadio, and I love all things tech,

0:54.8

and it is time for the tech news for Thursday, March 11th, 2021. Let's get to it. Last week, I told

1:03.3

you about how the social network site gab, known for the right-wing political philosophy of most of its

1:10.5

users, was the victim of a data

1:13.3

breach as a hacker accessed GAB systems and stole around 70 gigabytes worth of data, including

1:20.8

three million private posts. Well, earlier this week, GAB has been hacked again, and even went offline temporarily as the

1:31.8

administrators of the site conducted an investigation into the security vulnerability that made

1:37.2

this possible. Now, during the downtime, users who were trying to go to Gab got an error message,

1:43.6

but the site is back up as of this recording.

1:47.4

A hacker using the handle Captain Jack Sparrow, that's J-A-X-P-A-R-O, claims responsibility for both hacks.

1:56.0

Though, who knows if that handle represents just one person or it's being used by a group working together.

2:02.0

The hacker used authentication tokens that they gathered during the first hack, and they used those

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