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Rookie coding mistake prior to Gab hack came from site’s CTO

Enlarge (credit: Gab.com) Over the weekend, word emerged that a hacker breached far-right social media website Gab and downloaded 70 gigabytes of data by exploiting a garden-variety security flaw known as an SQL injection. A quick review of Gab’s open source code shows that the critical vulnerability—or at least one very much like it—was introduced […]