Clubhouse suffered a database breach, where at least its user’s phone numbers are up for sale on the hacking forum.
- Clubhouse suffered a data breach, and 3.8 billion contact numbers were being sold on the dark web.
- The company issued a statement denying the occurrence of the alleged breach.
Clubhouse suffered a databasebreach, where at least its user’s phone numbers are up for sale on the Darknet.
The Clubhouse is a social audio app where users can communicate in voice chat rooms that board groups of thousands of people.
The seller of the alleged secret database claims, "Clubhouse is connected to all their user’s phonebooks". Each time you add a contact number in your contacts list, "the contact number is automatically added into the secret database, " claims the post.
The hacker alleged that the data is valued at $3 billion, which also includes numbers of “most influential" people in the world. The allegations came days after Clubhouse dropped its invite-only status and opened the platform to all users.
Speaking over the alleged “secret database of Clubhouse, ” the company clarified, saying, “if one of these random numbers happens to exist on our platform due to mathematical coincidence, Clubhouse’s API returns no user identifiable information."
“Days after scraped data from more than a billion Facebook and LinkedIn profiles, collectively speaking, was put for sale online, it looks like now it’s Clubhouse’s turn. The upstart platform seems to have experienced the same fate, with an SQL database containing 1.3 million scraped Clubhouse user records leaked for free on a popular hacker forum,” reports CyberNews.
The leaked records included user IDs, names, usernames, Instagram handles, Twitter handles, number of people followed by the users, number of followers, accounts’ creation date, and invited by user profile names.
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