February 28, 2020

Clearview AI loses entire database of faceprint-buying clients to hackers

Time to worry about how well the facial recognition startup protects its 3b+ database of faceprints scraped from our social media accounts?

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September 11, 2019

LinkedIn can’t block public profile data scraping, court rules

The long-awaited decision found that automated scraping of publicly accessible data likely doesn't violate the CFAA.

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August 28, 2019

Report: 53% of social media logins are fraudulent

Most attacks are from botnets. The goals: spreading spam, stealing data, spreading propaganda, and social-engineering consumers for profit.

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August 09, 2019

Instagram boots ad partner for location tracking and scraping stories

A “preferred Facebook Marketing Partner” is alleged to have tracked millions of Instagram users' locations and stories.

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June 19, 2019

Millions of Venmo transactions scraped (again)

Not much has changed since a year ago, when a bot was tweeting out publicly visible Venmo "drug" deals from the public-by-default company.

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May 22, 2019

Instagram data from 49 million accounts found lying around online

A security researcher has discovered a massive cache of data on millions of Instagram influencers, publicly accessible for everyone to see.

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March 19, 2019

Epic in hot water over Steam-scraping code

Players noticed that Epic Games was gathering and storing data from Steam accounts without their permission.

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March 12, 2019

Facebook sues developers over data-scraping quizzes

Downloaded by 63K users, the quizzes promised answers to questions such as "What kind of dog are you according to your zodiac sign?"

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April 05, 2018

“Most people on Facebook” have had data scraped by malicious actors

Facebook has disabled the account recovery feature that allowed the scraping of any public profile data

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