Facebook sues Ukrainian man for scraping and selling 178m users’ data

Facebook tracked down the programmer after he mistakenly used his contact information on email and job portals. On October 21, 2021, Facebook filed a lawsuit against a Ukrainian citizen for allegedly scraping information of 178 million users of the social network and selling the data on hacker forums. Reportedly, the data scraping occurred between 2018 […]

DarkScrape – OSINT Tool For Scraping Dark Websites

OSINT Tool to find Media Links in Tor Sites. Features Download Media Scrape From Single Url Scraping From Files Txt Csv Excel Tested On Kali Linux 2019.2 Ubuntu 18.04 Nethunter Arc Linux Also read: FreshOnions – Tor Scraper Installation git clone https://github.com/itsmehacker/DarkScrape.git pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Facebook Sues Two Ukrainian Developers for Data Scraping

Facebook has filed a suit against two Ukrainian browsing extension makers for data scraping. The suit has been filed on Friday, March 8 against two Kiev-based developers named Gleb Sluchevsky and Andrey Gorbachov for creating Facebook apps and browser extensions that harvested user data and also injected advertisements into users’ timelines. The developers are working […]

WhatsApp public groups can leave user data vulnerable to scraping

WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton expressed outrage at Facebook’s privacy policies last month by tweeting “It is time. #deletefacebook.” But WhatsApp’s Facebook-like group chat features also have design flaws that jeopardize user privacy. Maybe it’s also time to #DeleteWhatsApp. WhatsApp differentiates itself from parent company Facebook by touting its end-to-end encryption. “Some of your most personal moments are shared with […]

Tweep – An Advanced Twitter Scraping Tool

Tweep is an advanced Twitter scraping tool written in python that allows for scraping Tweets and pictures from Twitter profiles without using Twitter’s API. Benefits Some of the benefits of using Tweep vs Twitter API: Fast initial setup Can be used anonymously No rate limitations Can fetch all Tweets (Twitter API limits to last 3200 […]