(Sorry to rip of Epoch Times, but this is too important to be paywalled.)
A Reddit group known as ParlerWatch pinned a post that the heavily upvoted description of the Parler hack is totally inaccurate.
"An inaccurate description of the Parler hack was posted here 8 hours ago, and has currently received nearly a thousand upvotes and numerous awards. Update: Now, 12 hours old, it has over 1300 upvotes. Unfortunately it's a completely inaccurate description of what went down. The post is confusing all the various security issues and mixing them up in a totally wrong way. The security researcher in question has confirmed that the description linked above was [nonsense]," the post read.
The group furthermore claimed: "TLDR, the data were all publicly accessible files downloaded through an unsecured/public API by the Archive Team, there's no evidence at all someone were able to create administrator accounts or download the database," as some on Twitter and Reddit previously asserted.
Seventy terabytes is a relatively small amount of data given that Parler had tens of millions of users.
(Sorry to rip of Epoch Times, but this is too important to be paywalled.)
>A Reddit group known as ParlerWatch pinned a post that the heavily upvoted description of the Parler hack is totally inaccurate.
>"An inaccurate description of the Parler hack was posted here 8 hours ago, and has currently received nearly a thousand upvotes and numerous awards. Update: Now, 12 hours old, it has over 1300 upvotes. Unfortunately it's a completely inaccurate description of what went down. The post is confusing all the various security issues and mixing them up in a totally wrong way. The security researcher in question has confirmed that the description linked above was [nonsense]," the post read.
>The group furthermore claimed: "TLDR, the data were all publicly accessible files downloaded through an unsecured/public API by the Archive Team, there's no evidence at all someone were able to create administrator accounts or download the database," as some on Twitter and Reddit previously asserted.
>Seventy terabytes is a relatively small amount of data given that Parler had tens of millions of users.
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