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Clubhouse hack exposes data of 1.3m users, CEO says info already public

Audio chat social network app Clubhouse is the latest company to have suffered a data breach. Personal data of 1.3 million users in an SQL database was leaked on a hacker forum for free, reported Cybernews. Profile names and followers were reportedly leaked and not sensitive data such as credit card information or legal documents. Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison, however, refuted the claim and said the supposedly leaked information is already in the public domain and could be accessed by anyone, wrote The Verge. Davison had a strong retort to the allegation of a data leak. “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,’” Davison responded at a town hall meeting when questioned. The public profile information could be accessed by anyone using its API, Clubhouse wrote on Twitter. However, CyberNews argues that the availability of public profile information of a million users was enough reason to call it a data breach. A security researcher for the publication says that even though Clubhouse privacy policy does not allow data mining and scraping, its technical end should have had anti-scraping measures. Clubhouse has not published any official statement yet, based on the CEOs comments, it seems unlikely it will. We have emailed Clubhouse and will update the article if we receive a response. Clubhouse rose to popularity after Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted…

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