Cyber News reported, An SQL database containing the personal information of over 1 million Clubhouse users had previously been leaked online. Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison has denied the report that the audio-based chat app’s personal data was leaked.
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Cyber News reported, An SQL database containing the personal information of over 1 million Clubhouse users had previously been leaked online
Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison has denied the report that the audio-based chat app’s personal data was leaked
The alleged Clubhouse data leaked contained personal information such as User ID, photo URL, Twitter address, number of followers, and other details. However, the data leak did not include sensitive information like credit card numbers or legal documents
Clubhouse CEO claims the report to be false.
Davidson told The Verge, “No, this is misleading and false, it is a clickbait article, we were not hacked. The data referred to was all public profile information from our app. So, the answer to that is a definitive ‘no’”.
Earlier Cyber News reported, An SQL database containing the personal information of over 1 million Clubhouse users had previously been leaked online.
The alleged Clubhouse data leaked contained personal information such as User ID, photo URL, Twitter address, number of followers, and other details. However, the data leak did not include sensitive information like credit card numbers or legal documents.
Last week, Cyber News reported that LinkedIn had experienced a data breach that exposed the personal information of 500 million users. According to LinkedIn, no private member account data from the site was included in the link.
LinkedIn explained, the alleged for sale collection of LinkedIn data and discovered that it is an aggregate of data from a variety of websites and companies.
The data scraping incident on Facebook impacted over 500 million users. Facebook went on to say that the data was scraped before September 2019 and that the issue had already been resolved.
Despite the fact that Clubhouse was launched last year, it has been a massive success, the audio-based chat app is growing in popularity among users.
The company has seen appearances from popular celebrities, politicians and big business names.
Its success has inspired social networking giants like Facebook and Twitter to release their own versions. Facebook has begun testing Hotline in the United States, while Twitter has already launched Spaces. Clubhouse-like services are also being developed by Reddit, LinkedIn, and plenty of other companies.