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Pierluigi Paganini December 25, 2022

Updated: Data of 400 Million Twitter users up for sale

A threat actor is claiming they have obtained data of 400,000,000 Twitter users and is offering it for sale. A threat actor claims they have obtained data of 400,000,000 Twitter users and is attempting to sell it. The seller claims the database is private, he provided a sample of 1,000 accounts as proof of claims […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 29, 2022

Irish data protection commission fines Meta over 2021 data-scraping leak

Irish data protection commission (DPC) fined Meta for not protecting Facebook’s users’ data from scraping. Meta has been fined €265 million ($275.5 million) by the Irish data protection commission (DPC) for the data leak suffered by Facebook in 2021 that exposed the data belonging to millions of Facebook users. The Data Protection Commission is also imposing […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2021

3.8 billion Clubhouse and Facebook user records allegedly scraped and merged, put for sale online

A user on a popular hacker forum is selling a database that purportedly contains 3.8 billion Clubhouse and Facebook user records. Original Post @CyberNews https://cybernews.com/security/3-8-billion-allegedly-scraped-and-merged-clubhouse-and-facebook-user-records-put-for-sale-online/ A user on a popular hacker forum is selling a database that purportedly contains 3.8 billion user records. The database was allegedly compiled by combining 3.8 billion phone numbers from […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2021

Threat actors scrape 600 million LinkedIn profiles and are selling the data online – again

Researchers from Cyber News Team have spotted threat actors offering for sale 600 million LinkedIn profiles scraped from the platform, again. Original post: https://cybernews.com/news/threat-actors-scrape-600-million-linkedin-profiles-and-are-selling-the-data-online-again/ For the third time in the past four months, LinkedIn seems to have experienced another massive data scrape conducted by a malicious actor. Once again, an archive of data collected from […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 08, 2021

Scraped data of 500 million LinkedIn users being sold online, 2 million records leaked as proof

Days after a massive Facebook data leak made the headlines, 500 million LinkedIn users are being sold online, seller leaked 2 million records as proof. Original Post at https://cybernews.com/news/stolen-data-of-500-million-linkedin-users-being-sold-online-2-million-leaked-as-proof-2/ An archive containing data purportedly scraped from 500 million LinkedIn profiles has been put for sale on a popular hacker forum, with another 2 million records leaked as […]

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Updated: Data of 400 Million Twitter users up for sale

Irish data protection commission fines Meta over 2021 data-scraping leak

3.8 billion Clubhouse and Facebook user records allegedly scraped and merged, put for sale online

Threat actors scrape 600 million LinkedIn profiles and are selling the data online – again

Scraped data of 500 million LinkedIn users being sold online, 2 million records leaked as proof

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