Global data breaches of selected alternative social media platforms 2021-2022

Despite being launched relatively recently and not having a significant user base, alternative social media platforms have become targets for hackers. Parler, the platform often associated with conservatives and used as an alternative to Twitter, saw a breach of more than 60 terabytes of data in January 2021. Cybersecurity specialists, though, say there was no evidence that the platform was hacked. Instead, the vulnerability was in the platform's architecture, which resulted in the data breach. Another alt-tech platform, Gab, was hacked two months after Parler's incident. Around 70 gigabytes of sensitive user data were exposed in this incident. During the Gettr hack in July 2021, third parties got unauthorized access to 90 thousand e-mail addresses of users. The BitChute hack that occurred in August 2022 affected nearly three million users.