April 22, 2020 309 million Facebook users’ phone numbers found online First, 267m records were exposed & sold for 0.0002 cents each on the Dark Web. It was taken down but got reposted with yet more records. Naked Security
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. Naked Security
April 23, 2018 Is scraping files from a Freedom of Information website ‘hacking’? A teen is being charged for downloading 7k records, 250 of which weren't properly redacted. Who's to blame? Naked Security
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 Naked Security
May 20, 2016 Published personal data on 70,000 OkCupid users taken down after DMCA order They got the "highly identifiable" data with a scraper, without permission of users whose kinks, location and more were exposed. Naked Security
