GETTR, a social media app created by allies of Donald Trump was hacked hours after its launch on Sunday.
“The problem was detected and sealed in a matter of minutes, and all the intruder was able to accomplish was to change a few user names,” Jason Miller, the founder and former spokesperson for Trump, said in a statement to Reuters.
Salon writer Zachary Petrizzo posted screenshots on Twitter of several GETTR profiles, including those of former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Miller himself, that were altered to read “JubaBaghdad was here, follow me in twitter :)”.
Asked about security on the new social media said, Miller said the situation had been “rectified,” Reuters reports.
GETTR advertises itself as “a non-bias social network for people all over the world.” It is similar to Twitter, Trump’s preferred social media app before he was permanently banned after the deadly January 6 Capitol riot.
More than 500,000 people have registered to use the site so far, Miller told Reuters. Donald Trump is not one of them.
Miller told Fox News he hopes Trump will join the new niche site but the former president is considering a number of other options.
