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Data Scraping

A hacker is selling 700 million LinkedIn users accounts

LinkedIn has not suffered data breach but the records being sold are collected through data scraping technique. Two months back, Hackread.com exclusively reported a staggering data leak compiled as a result of data scraping involving LinkedIn where threat actors posted 500 million and over 800 million LinkedIn user profiles up for sale on a hacker […]

Facebook data of 500M+ users from 106 countries leaked online

The data was leaked earlier today on an infamous hacker forum without users’ Facebook accounts passwords. For the last couple of years, a Facebook database containing the personal and contact information of more than 500 million users kept popping up on several hacker forums where threat actors offered the data for $30,000. Hackread.com exclusively reported […]

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 […]