Security News > 2021 > July > Hacker dumps private info of pro-Trump GETTR social network members
Newly launched social site GETTR suffered a data breach after a hacker claimed to use an unsecured API to scrape the private information of almost 90,000 members and then shared the data on a hacking forum.
GETTR is a new pro-Trump social media platform created by former Trump advisor Jason Miller as an alternative to Twitter.
As first seen by Alon Gal, co-founder and CTO of cybersecurity firm Hudson Rock, a group of hackers found an unsecured application programming interface that allowed them to scrape the data for 87,973 GETTR members.
The hacker states that they first utilized an unsecured API to scrape public profile data of GETTR users, but it was later secured.
BleepingComputer has contacted GETTR regarding the leaked data but has not received a response.
All GETTR users should be on the lookout for phishing emails pretending to be from GETTR, leading to a site asking you to log in.