http://www.newsweek.com/gab-hack-ceo-andrew-torba-condemns-threats-violence-against-social-network-attackers-1573148

The CEO of social network Gab has said he has "zero tolerance" for threats of violence against people deemed to be "attacking" his platform after a transparency website said it had obtained a 70 gigabyte trove of its user data.

Boss Andrew Torba, who launched the platform in 2016, said in a blog post on Monday

that he was informed about the hack last weekend and had been sent a ransom notice demanding payment of nearly $500,000 worth of the cryptocurrency bitcoin.