Parler data breach: Archived posts from Capitol riots could reveal platform's role in the insurrect

[UpInArms]

As thousands of President Donald Trump's supporters swarmed Washington last week, one hacker archived their posts on Parler to help reconstruct the role the social media platform played in the deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol.

The hacker, who goes by @donk_enby on Twitter, said her goal was to preserve every post from Wednesday's Capitol breach before the Parler platform was taken down, like "a bunch of people running into a burning building trying to grab as many things as we can."

Parler and @donk_enby didn't immediately respond to USA TODAY's requests for comment.

According to the Atlantic Council, Parler is one of the social media platforms popular with conservatives and extremists that was used to plan last week's riots. Others cited include Gab and MeWe.

More at:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2021/01/11/parler-hack-platform-archived-hackers-capitol-riots/6629772002/

[msongs]

1. probably not useable legally without subpoenas. seems like its a bit stolen perhaps nt

[zaj]

2. They just need to subpoena Amazon directly.

[Miguelito Loveless]

3. They can get a search warrant

And get the data pulled direct from Amazon’s backups.

[Thekaspervote]

4. Let's be sure to hold the founders of parler responsible..the mercers!!

[turtleblossom]

7. That name should be plastered all over the place along with Sheldon Adelson

[drray23]

5. I suspect amazon already got a request from authorities

to preserve the backups for future investigations.

[turtleblossom]

6. That data is of no use.

On the other hand, if AWS has that stashed somewhere...

[drray23]

8. obviously they have backups and its likely they were asked to preserve them

by the authorities. Its standard procedure if there is impeding investigation or litigation.