Hackers are claiming they have gained access to vast amounts of data from Parler, the far-right social media platform, before it was taken down. Over the weekend, the Parler app was blocked from both the Android and iOS app stores. This was followed by the company losing its website after Amazon stopped supporting it on its AWS cloud platform. But attackers have claimed that before the social media site went down they were able to get hold of information that includes users’ messages, locations and even in some cases their driving licences. A self-proclaimed hacker from Austria, known as ‘Donk Enby’ on Twitter, claimed to have access to all of the ‘unprocessed, raw’ video files uploaded to Parler ‘with all associated metadata.’

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