Pro-Trump Gettr App Hacked on Launch Day as Half Million Sign Up

A social media website launched on Sunday by Jason Miller, a senior adviser to former US President Donald Trump, was briefly hacked, and greater than 500,000 individuals have registered to make use of the location, Miller mentioned.

Gettr, a Twitter-style platform with posts and trending subjects, has marketed itself on the Google and Apple app shops as “a non-bias social network for people all over the world.”

“The problem was detected and sealed in a matter of minutes, and all the intruder was able to accomplish was to change a few user names,” Miller mentioned in an emailed assertion to Reuters.

A author for Salon posted screenshots on Twitter of a number of Gettr profiles, together with these of former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Miller himself, that have been altered to learn “JubaBaghdad was here, follow me in twitter :)”

Asked about safety on the brand new social media mentioned, Miller mentioned the state of affairs had been “rectified.”

Miller had teased the Trump workforce’s plans to start out a brand new social media platform for months following strikes by Twitter and different websites to dam the previous president after the January 6 riot the place his supporters stormed the Capitol.

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon on Sunday described Gettr as “the Twitter killer” in a submit on the brand new website.

Trump was completely banned from Twitter and stays suspended by Facebook till no less than 2023 and by Alphabet’s YouTube till the corporate determines the chance of violence has decreased.

Miller told Fox News earlier this week he hoped Trump would be part of however that the previous president was contemplating a variety of choices. He mentioned Trump was not funding the platform.
 

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