Clubhouse calls report on data breach ‘misleading and false’

San Francisco: Clubhouse has denied any breach or hack after a report mentioned {that a} database containing 1.3 million scraped data of the platform’s customers had been posted on a well-liked hacker discussion board.

In line with a report in CyberNews on Saturday, the “leaked” database comprises a wide range of user-related info from Clubhouse profiles, together with consumer ID, title, picture URL, username, Twitter and Instagram handles, variety of followers, variety of individuals adopted by the consumer, account creation date, and invited by consumer profile title.

The invite-only app, out there at the moment just for iPhone customers, referred to as the report “deceptive and false”.

“Clubhouse has not been breached or hacked. The info referred to is all public profile info from our app, which anybody can entry by way of the app or our API,” Clubhouse mentioned in an announcement on Twitter.

The CyberNews report mentioned that the scraped information posted on the hacker discussion board can be utilized by cybercriminals to hold out focused phishing or different sorts of social engineering assaults, and that such database may also be utilized by menace actors to brute-force the passwords of Clubhouse profiles.

The information comes inside a couple of days of an archive with information purportedly scraped from
500 million LinkedIn profiles reportedly put on the market on a well-liked hacker discussion board emerged, with one other 2 million data leaked as a proof-of-concept pattern by individuals behind the hack.

Earlier this month, one other information leak report rocked social media customers as private information of practically 533 million Fb customers, together with 61 lakh Indians, remerged on-line after a hacker posted the small print on a digital discussion board.