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Hacker Gained Access to Parler's Content Before AWS Shut-Down, More Top Infosec News for 1/11/21

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Hacker Gained Access to Parler's Content Before AWS Shut-Down, More Top Infosec News for 1/11/21

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Cynthia Brumfield
Jan 11, 2021
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A hacker who goes by the name Crash Override and uses the Twitter handle @donk_enby claims to have hacked into the now-defunct hard-right website Parler’s login API and gained access to all content. She is now leaking some of the content online.

Parler, which experienced a surge in user sign-up requests after Twitter banned the accounts of Donald Trump and associated violent insurrectionists, went offline last night following the decision by Amazon to no longer host its content.

@donk_enby began her task intending to catalog the posts of Parler users before the site went offline.

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