{"id":151617,"date":"2022-12-01T17:23:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T23:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/hive-social-turns-off-servers-after-researchers-warn-hackers-can-access-all-data"},"modified":"2022-12-01T17:23:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T23:23:33","slug":"hive-social-turns-off-servers-after-researchers-warn-hackers-can-access-all-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/hive-social-turns-off-servers-after-researchers-warn-hackers-can-access-all-data","title":{"rendered":"Hive Social turns off servers after researchers warn hackers can access all data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hive-social-turns-off-servers-after-researchers-warn-hackers-can-access-all-data.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hive Social, a social media platform that has seen meteoric growth since Elon Musk took over Twitter, abruptly shut down its service on Wednesday after a security advisory warned the site was riddled with vulnerabilities that exposed all data stored in user accounts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe issues we reported allow any attacker to <b>access all data<\/b>, including private posts, private messages, shared media and even deleted direct messages,\u201d the advisory, published on Wednesday by Berlin-based security collective Zerforschung, claimed. \u201cThis also includes private email addresses and phone numbers entered during login.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post went on to say that after the researchers privately reported the vulnerabilities last Saturday, many of the flaws they reported remained unpatched. They headlined their post \u201cWarning: do not use Hive Social.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hive Social, a social media platform that has seen meteoric growth since Elon Musk took over Twitter, abruptly shut down its service on Wednesday after a security advisory warned the site was riddled with vulnerabilities that exposed all data stored in user accounts. \u201cThe issues we reported allow any attacker to access all data, including [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}