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Over 1 Million Clubhouse Users Had Their Personal Data Leaked Online

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From Mashable.com…..

Large-scale data leaks have become almost a rite of passage for new social networks. If Clubhouse wasn’t part of the, erm, club before, it is now.

Cyber 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. 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.

Clubhouse didn’t immediately respond to Mashable’s request for comment, but the official Clubhouse Twitter account pushed back against the idea that there was a hack, saying the leaked information is already public via the app’s API.

That may technically be accurate, but the end result is still that the data is now available in a collected and searchable format when it wasn’t before.

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