A databased containing scraped data of nearly 235 million social media users from Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube was exposed without any password protection. It contained user information such as names, contact info, images, and stats about followers.

Web scraping is a technique of gathering data from web pages in an automated manner. While it’s not illegal, social media companies prohibit this practice to protect user data. However, a lot of analytics companies create large databases of user information by using web scrapers on popular sites. Some of these companies often sell insights from these databases to other firms.

The scraped data had four major datasets with details of millions of users from the aforementioned platforms. It contained information such as profile name, full name, profile photo, age, gender, and follower stats.

This kind of data is often used for phishing and spam campaigns. So, it’s up to companies to keep their databases secure.

https://thenextweb.com/security/2020...tabase-breach/

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Feels good to not have any of those. Never used Instagram or tictoc but I do watch some good YouTube howto videos when I'm learning something new.

I wouldn't call web scraping a breach, that sounds sensationalized. All of that data already is there for public viewing, scraping just makes it easy to pull exactly what you want or need as long as you can program it.

A true database breach is exactly that, when you gain access to a company's internal servers and pull the classified data.

never used any of them because I have self respect. zero fuks given.

Not sure why you'd ever put your last name or real details on FB/insta/etc. If you grew up with the internet, you know how risky and stupid that is.