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Data associated with 1.3 million users of the Clubhouse app -- including their name, username, User ID, numbers of followers, and more -- has been posted on a hacker forum, according to a cybersecurity industry news report.
Clubhouse has been going out of its way, however, to stress online and to try and correct news reports suggesting that these details connected to the app's user base were not "hacked" from Clubhouse, and that Clubhouse did not suffer a breach or data leak of some kind. In what were apparently internal company comments shared during a town hall, Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison blasted the CyberNews article (headlined, "Clubhouse data leak: 1.3 million scraped user records leaked online for free") that brought this situation to light as "clickbait." It was "misleading and false," Davison said in comments shared by The Verge. "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.’”
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Clubhouse user data was posted on a hacker forum originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 12 Apr 2021 at 01:59:55 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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