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Gettr, the new social media network was hacked not once, but twice. Apart from releasing customers’ data online, hackers enjoyed themselves by flooding the platform with Sonic the Hedgehog-themed pornography and tampering with users’ profiles, according to Threat Post.
Gettr can be described as another Twitter alternative that focuses on posts regarding the current topics. The organization describes itself as “a non-bias social network for people all over the world.”
When Gettr was first launched, cybersecurity professionals recognized that the APIs were poorly written and full of vulnerabilities. Ashkan Soltani, a security researcher, uncovered a flaw that allows a threat actor to launch a brute-force attack targeting the API by giving it a list of emails and receiving a response listing the ones muted or blacklisted.
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