![]() ![]() This is a copy-paste /ZnhnspqNX1Ĭlubhouse’s data leaks came after two data leaks from social media platforms, Facebook and LinkedIn. ![]() The news report mentioned “messages” and “passwords” on Clubhouse, which is inaccurate because CH doesn’t have messaging, users don’t login using passwordsĬoincidentally, the near-identical paragraph appears in the LinkedIn data breach report five days ago. In this case the scraper was able to download public user information one by one. It’s like an automated browser that downloads public information. Wow, very technically challenging □Ī scrape is when a software is able to download public information from a website, like member information or even just the content. Like wow, you looped the API from 1 to 2 to 3 for the otherwise publicly available data. Honestly this “hack” is not very impressive at all. Security researcher and technology blogger Jane Manchun Wong also reiterated on Twitter that the Clubhouse leak appears to be a data scrape of publicly available information. He asserted that the platform was not hacked, and that the data referred to in the reports was all public information taken from the app. Davison was asked about the alleged leak during a town hall, and in response, he said that the reports were misleading and that they were ‘clickbait’ articles. SEE ALSO: Facebook's Clubhouse-Inspired Q&A App Is Named Hotline And It's Already Ready For Beta TestingĬlubhouse CEO Paul Davison has denied the reports of leak of Clubhouse users’ personal data. The data referred to is all public profile information from our app, which anyone can access via the app or our API," Clubhouse said in a statement on Twitter. ![]() ![]() "Clubhouse has not been breached or hacked. The compromised data included names, handles for other linked social media accounts, and the username of whoever invited said user, as Clubhouse is still in an invite-only stage. A database containing the personal information of 1.3 million Clubhouse users has been found being offered for free on a popular hacker forum.Ĭyber News reported over the weekend that personal data for around 1.3 million users was scraped from the trendy voice chatroom app and posted on a hacker forum. ![]()
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