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Personal data of 1.3 million Clubhouse users has reportedly leaked online days after LinkedIn and Facebook also suffered data breaches
Personal data of 1.3 million Clubhouse users has reportedly leaked online days after LinkedIn and Facebook also suffered data breaches
Katie CanalesApr 11, 2021, 02:49 IST
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Facebook user data has also been exposed online within the past week.
The personal data of 1.3 million Clubhouse users has leaked online on a popular hacker forum, according to a Saturday report from Cyber News.
The leaked data of Clubhouse users includes names, social media profile names, and other details.
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Researchers warned for years Facebook s phone number lookup tools were vulnerable to abuse.
Facebook said it fixed the issue in 2019. But by then, more than 500 million users data had been stolen.
Researchers also said they found a near-identical problem in WhatsApp soon after, but Facebook initially said it wasn t an issue.
Facebook fixed a security vulnerability in August 2019 that had allowed hackers to scrape more than 500 million users data from its app.
But the company had been warned about the risks of the tools than enabled the data exfiltration years before it finally took action.
The leaked data of Clubhouse users includes names, social media profile names, and other details.
Clubhouse did not immediately respond to Insider s request for comment that was made on Saturday. As Cyber News reported, the exposed data could enable bad actors to target users through phishing schemes or identity theft.
The invite-only social media app launched in March 2020 and has grown into a popular platform and attracted millions of users. Its audio community allows users to tune into conversations, or rooms, about various topics. The company is reportedly in talks for a funding round that values the company at $4 billion.
Facebook has declined to accept responsibility in a recent hack that compromised the phone numbers of 533 million users.
In an April 6th blog post, Facebook product management director Mike Clark attempted to address the hack, which was first discovered on April 3rd by Alan Gal, of the cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock.
Gal noted that birth dates, locations, email addresses and more were leaked on top of the phone numbers. In particular, 3.5 million Canadians were affected, says Gal.
However, Facebook is now downplaying what happened while ostensibly attributing blame to the users who had their information leaked.
âIt is important to understand that malicious actors obtained this data not through hacking our systems but by scraping it from our platform prior to September 2019,â Clark wrote.