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Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
It turns out with this administrator API key it's not only possible to download all their data, but also to change it. For a few weeks in July, ALL of TPP's petitions were renamed to "Stop the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act" https://t.co/SbpQKq4dwn — PolitiTweet.org
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
Using this API key, they could access ALL OF TPP'S DATA. So they did. They made over 800,000 API requests and downloaded details of ~800 local chapters and all their members, all the petitions and everyone who signed or donated. Each of these users is full of detailed info. — PolitiTweet.org
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
It turns out, if you viewed the source of any of TPP's petitions there was an 💫ADMINISTRATOR💫 API key. This "Wear Red on Trump's Birthday" petition is the one the hacker looked at to find this API key https://t.co/MvvcUMx1Jf — PolitiTweet.org
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
So, why hack Tea Party Patriots? The hacker, who identifies with Anonymous, says it's because TPP was responsible for a lot of early COVID-19 misinformation, promoting hydroxychloroquine as a cure (it's not) https://t.co/uaLpRcfXOH — PolitiTweet.org
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
A quick note about the password hashes in the hacked data: The data has hashes for 13,000 users, and they're all hashed used salted MD5. MD5 is totally broken, so it's likely most of the original passwords could be recovered with normal GPUs and not too much time. — PolitiTweet.org
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
Their most popular petition of all time, "Make Adam Schiff Resign", got 70k signatures. This was during Trump's first impeachment inquiry. Schiff was a lead investigator into allegations that Trump withheld funds from Ukraine in exchange for investigations into the Bidens. — PolitiTweet.org
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
But their activism division has really waned since then. There's only been 3 petitions with more than 8k signatures since then. Their latest "Stop Critical Race Theory" petition only got 34 signatures in its first 2 weeks. https://t.co/kUiwDG8PTm — PolitiTweet.org
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
TPP is a conservative activist group. Back in mid-2015 to mid-2017 they frequently had petitions that got >20k signatures with names like: - No Funding for Illegals - Save Our Constitution - Support Senator Jeff Sessions - Trump Won, Get Over It — PolitiTweet.org
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
Because the data has home addresses, we could map cities with active users. Houston has the most, 984, followed by San Antonia, Las Vegas, then Phoenix. Are there Tea Party people in your area? (This map shows cities (with >=10 users), not home addresses) https://t.co/hwxlIGKwAr — PolitiTweet.org
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
TPP frequently claims to have "over 3 million" supporters, but this doesn't seem to be even close to true. The hacked data (which could be incomplete) shows the real number is closer to 500k supporters, and only 144k of those are listed as "active" https://t.co/3plNvnccLj — PolitiTweet.org
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
Another major donor is David Gore (an Oregan libertarian who's family owns the Gore-Tex fabric company), who stays out of the pubic light. Between 2018 and 2021, he's given: $50,000 to TPP Action, 501c4 $275,000 to TPP's super PAC $124,000 to TPP Foundation, 501c3 — PolitiTweet.org
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
Interesting note about Sanford Diller: He was also allegedly involved in an illegal scheme to trade millions of dollars in political donations in exchange for a pardon from Donald Trump for a friend of his https://t.co/SLoCuoGa1V — PolitiTweet.org
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
In 2015 the non-profit got $106k in revenue, hacked data shows from only 2 donors. $100,000 of that came from now-deceased California real-estate billionaire Sanford Diller, who donated a total of $400k to TPP's organizations. — PolitiTweet.org
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
Turns out, a few super rich donors account for most of the TPP non-profit's donations for multiple years. In 2019 the non-profit got $1.2M in revenue. One was Texas billionaire Christopher Goldsbury, who on September 11, 2019 wired $1,000,000. — PolitiTweet.org
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
TPP was founded in 2009 basically to protest Obama, Obamacare, and big government. They were involved in Trump's "March to Save America" rally before the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol, and they spread COVID-19 misinformation early in the pandemic. — PolitiTweet.org
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
Remember the Tea Party movement? Someone hacked their biggest group, @TPPatriots, and sent me 327gb of membership, donation, and petition signature records, including phone numbers, addresses, detailed activity history, and password hashes https://t.co/kVRWJSlAYW — PolitiTweet.org
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
RT @matthew_d_green: So I wrote this previous thread in a hurry and didn’t take time to spell out what it means, and what the background is… — PolitiTweet.org
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
RT @AOC: In both small ways and large, “it always seems impossible until it’s done.” 💜 https://t.co/UQnidnGwWZ — PolitiTweet.org
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
I'm testing out Pop!_OS. It has an actual human-usable tiling window manager, very cool so far https://t.co/wifihTnLCI — PolitiTweet.org
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
Jihadists flood pro-Trump social network GETTR with propaganda https://t.co/GYKJrhYnur — PolitiTweet.org
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
Female journalists and activists were hacked using NSO's Pegasus malware, had their private photos shared on social media by governments seeking to intimidate and silence them https://t.co/Gsrcn8w4vc — PolitiTweet.org
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
RT @cfarivar: Have replicated @FoxCahn’s test. The new NYC Covid Safe app accepted this picture of a menu from @4505_Meats in San Francisc… — PolitiTweet.org
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
RT @torproject: We need your help to smash Tor bugs! 👾💥 By making a donation of any size during the month of August, you'll replenish the… — PolitiTweet.org
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
RT @ajplus: 1 out of 5 trans people say they have experienced homelessness due to their identity. Now, this trans-owned alpaca ranch in Co… — PolitiTweet.org
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
RT @Snowden: Enormous: official confirmation of the allegations regarding Israeli hacking-for-hire company NSO Group's involvement in targe… — PolitiTweet.org
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
Also due to our reporting, last year the Federal Trade Commission investigated Zoom for misleading consumers about… https://t.co/hu6eQBYAJM — PolitiTweet.org
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
We first reported the Zoom was misleading customers, and didn't actually support end-to-end encryption like they cl… https://t.co/J2E6EpvPpy — PolitiTweet.org
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
Zoom just settled a class-action lawsuit for $86 million over lying to customers about end-to-end encryption and fa… https://t.co/XG3kf29gtG — PolitiTweet.org
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
RT @ztsamudzi: A hell country https://t.co/anl0ukiIUf — PolitiTweet.org
Micah Lee 🫡 @micahflee
RT @nowthisnews: This teen invented a new kind of fire extinguisher to save homes from wildfires https://t.co/naFEW4xy81 — PolitiTweet.org
