Clubhouse Denies the Last Leak
Clubhouse Data Leak
Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison said the report alleging the leak of personal user data is false.
Days after the data of more than 1,000 million Facebook and LinkedIn accounts were published collectively and put up for sale online, it now appears that it is the turn of Clubhouse.
Cyber News reported publishing its SQL database containing user IDs, names, usernames, Twitter and Instagram IDs and the number of followers in an online hacker forum.
And according to Cyber News, it does not appear that sensitive user information, such as credit card numbers, was among the information leaked, containing 1.3 million user records.
Clubhouse denied, saying: This is misleading and wrong, and Clubhouse has not been hacked, and the data referred to is the public account information within our application, which anyone can access via the application or our API.
Davison also confirmed in response to a question about the platform's exposure to a data breach: No, it did not happen, and this is misleading and wrong, and we have not been hacked, and the data referred to is public account information from our application, so the answer to that is no.
These responses raise some questions about the company's privacy stance that allows anyone to collect public information for the accounts on a large scale.
Last week, Cyber News reported that the personal data of up to 500 million LinkedIn users had been collected and published online, and the Microsoft-owned company said: No private LinkedIn member account data was included in the leak.
The news came just two days after it was discovered that the personal data of some 533 million Facebook users had been leaked online for free.
The Facebook leak reportedly included users' phone numbers, dates of birth, geographical locations, email addresses and full names.
The Clubhouse achieved a massive year in its first year, despite being invite-only and available for iOS devices only, with more than 10 million downloads.
Twitter, LinkedIn, Spotify and Slack have launched rival social voice platforms, and Facebook is said to have one in development as well.
