Clubhouse denies it was ‘breached’ and says the data is out there for anyone to grab.
Clubhouse, the startup invitation-only chat app, is the latest social-media platform to see mammoth troves of user data collected and posted in underground forums. An SQL file containing the personal data of 1.3 million Clubhouse users has been posted in a hacker forum for free.
Names, user IDs, photo URL, number of followers, Twitter and Instagram handles, dates that accounts were created and even the profile information of who invited them to the app are among the information contained in the database, according to CyberNews, giving threat actors key information which can be used against victims in phishing and other socially engineered scams.
June 15, 2020Australia, if you need a refresher, is attempting to force the tech giants to negotiate with publishers over payment for using their content in Google search results and Facebook’s News Feed. The closely watched proposal would allow news organizations to collectively negotiate terms and give an outside arbiter the authority to make a final decision, should the companies fail to come to an agreement on their own.
(Google, Facebook, and other tech companies have long argued that their use of news outlets’ material falls under fair use or, as other countries call a similar concept, fair dealing. They also point out that news companies can choose to be removed from their platforms, but almost never do.)