Gab
Disclosed Mar 3, 20215 years ago66,521 accountsUnverified
In February 2021, the alt-tech social network service Gab suffered a data breach . The incident exposed almost 70GB of data including 4M user accounts, a small number of private chat logs and a list of public groups and public posts made to the service. Only a small number of accounts included email addresses and / or passwords stored as bcrypt hashes with a total of 66.5k unique email addresses being exposed across the corpus of data.
What is known
| People affected | 66,521 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned) |
|---|---|
| Disclosed | Mar 3, 2021 |
| Happened | Feb 26, 2021 |
| Attack | Not stated |
| Data exposed | Emails, Names, Passwords, Dates of birth, Messages |
| Sector | Tech |
| Status | Unverified: not yet confirmed by an official notice, a filing or the organization |
| Check your email | Have I Been Pwned |
Sources
| Source | |
|---|---|
| Have I Been Pwned: Gabhaveibeenpwned.com · Aggregator | Aggregator |
Notices filed
| Where | Filed | People |
|---|---|---|
| Have I Been Pwnedaccounts in the data | Mar 3, 2021 | 66,521 |
History of this record
- 2026-09-25 · added · backfill source
First seen 2026-09-25 (Have I Been Pwned). Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.