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On March 8, JaXpArO again compromised verified accounts on Gab, posting a message to their feeds addressed to Torba, which said the service had been "fully compromised" the previous week and accused him of lying to Gab's users.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Smith|first=Adam|date=March 9, 2021|title=Gab: Far-right social network taken offline in second hack as attacker insults 'despicable users'|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/gab-offline-hack-twitter-security-b1814489.html|url-status=live|access-date=March 9, 2021|website=[[The Independent]]|language=en}}</ref> Gab briefly went offline again the same day, and the company wrote on Twitter that they had taken their site offline "to investigate a security breach".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hodjat|first=Arya|date=2021-03-09|title=Far-Right Social Media Platform Gab Goes Offline Over 'Security Breach,' Gets Mad on Twitter|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/far-right-social-media-platform-gab-goes-offline-over-security-breach-gets-mad-on-twitter|access-date=2021-03-09|website=The Daily Beast|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Kan|first=Michael|date=2021-03-09|title=Gab Social Network Briefly Shuts Down After Hacker Strikes Again|url=https://www.pcmag.com/news/gab-social-network-briefly-shut-downs-after-hacker-strikes-again|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-09|website=[[PC Magazine]]|language=en}}</ref> Torba posted a statement in response to the attack, claiming that "The attacker who stole data from Gab harvested [[OAuth|OAuth2]] bearer tokens during their initial attack" and that "Though their ability to harvest new tokens was patched, we did not clear all tokens related to the original attack. By reusing these old tokens, the attacker was able to post 177 statuses in an 8-minute period today."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Goodin|first=Dan|date=2021-03-09|title=Gab, a haven for pro-Trump conspiracy theories, has been hacked again|url=https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/03/gab-a-haven-for-pro-trump-conspiracy-theories-has-been-hacked-again/|access-date=2021-09-01|website=Ars Technica|language=en-us}}</ref>
In May 2021, ''[[The Intercept]]'' used GabLeaks in its coverage and fundraising. Former ''Intercept'' reporter [[Glenn Greenwald]] criticized the publication for exploiting what he called an invasion of free speech and privacy, which he said contrasted with ''The Intercept''<nowiki/>'s origins during the [[Global surveillance disclosures (2013–present)|Snowden leaks]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Wulfsohn|first=Joseph|date=2021-05-04|title=Glenn Greenwald rips former Intercept colleagues as 'liberal DNC hacks' for seizing data dump of Gab users|url=https://www.foxnews.com/media/glenn-greenwald-the-intercept-gab-users|access-date=2021-05-06|website=Fox News|language=en-US}}</ref>
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In August 2021, Alex Kaplan of [[Media Matters for America]] noted that Torba "is trying to use his platform to sabotage coronavirus vaccination efforts".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kaplan|first=Alex|date=2021-08-31|title=Gab’s CEO is trying to use his platform to sabotage coronavirus vaccination efforts|url=https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/gabs-ceo-trying-use-his-platform-sabotage-coronavirus-vaccination-efforts|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-01|website=[[Media Matters for America]]|language=en}}</ref>
{{As of|2021|3}}, Gab has 4{{Nbsp}}million registered users. According to Micah Lee writing for ''
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