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70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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The linked post celebrates this saying they can share this data with law enforcement, but is it legal for them to pursue cases based on the evidence found in stolen data?

Yes.

Why doesn't chain of custody apply to data?

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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This sounds like an incredible fuckup by Twilio. If it's true that their authentication verification was the entrypoint, they could be liable for leaking an enormous amount of personal information.

It's hard to tell. It could be that Parler's systems were set up to just fail the wrong way if the Twilio auth system didn't respond (on error: allow).

Whatever the case, this is going to be 'fun' to watch.

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The linked post celebrates this saying they can share this data with law enforcement, but is it legal for them to pursue cases based on the evidence found in stolen data?

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/searches-private-cit... > But, in some ways, there’s really no such thing as an “illegal” search by a private citizen, at least in the sense that police searches can be illegal: Regardless of issues like lack of probable cause, evidence found by private citizens acting on their own is usually admissible in court. That’s true even if the private citizen committed a crime like tr…

Thank you very much for the detailed link

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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This sounds like an incredible fuckup by Twilio. If it's true that their authentication verification was the entrypoint, they could be liable for leaking an enormous amount of personal information.

Not necessarily. See my other comment on this thread, but they may have failed-open when the OTP authentication dependency was down- ie, hey, Twilio throws an exception sometimes so presume the user is approved so we don't impact the user experience due to Twilio being flakey.

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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This sounds like an incredible fuckup by Twilio. If it's true that their authentication verification was the entrypoint, they could be liable for leaking an enormous amount of personal information.

How so? Twilio simply suspended service which they are allowed to do based on the ToS. It was Parler that reacted to it by allowing unrestricted authentication rather than simply failing authentication.

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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This sounds like an incredible fuckup by Twilio. If it's true that their authentication verification was the entrypoint, they could be liable for leaking an enormous amount of personal information.

No, it'd be a fuckup by whoever code it to go "if Twilio is unavailable, just let them in".

It's highly unlikely Twilio's API responds with something like {"authenticated": true} when you haven't paid your bill or they suspend you.

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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This sounds like an incredible fuckup by Twilio. If it's true that their authentication verification was the entrypoint, they could be liable for leaking an enormous amount of personal information.

This loooks serious. I might have to start looking into Twilio alternatives form my company.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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Sounds like Twillo was actively helping hackers "That allowed them to see which users had moderator rights and this in turn allowed them to reset passwords of existing users with simple “forgot password” function. Since Twilio no longer authenticated emails, hackers were able to access admin accounts with ease."

As I'm reading it, Twilio simply shut down the account, Parler is the one who reacted to that by assuming everything is authenticated if the API doesn't work.

Re: 70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers

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This sounds like an incredible fuckup by Twilio. If it's true that their authentication verification was the entrypoint, they could be liable for leaking an enormous amount of personal information.

Hard to understand exactly what happened, but seems like a faulty implementation of Twillio's authy service.
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