Another social media platform API has been abused for data scraping. A listing offering 700 million LinkedIn profiles has appeared on an underground hacking forum.
Hot on the heels of high-profile data scraping incidents at Facebook and LinkedIn, the personal information of about 1.3 million users of chat app Clubhouse has been found posted to a hacker forum.
A Chinese startup leaked information of more than 214 million social media users obtained through data scraping, including private information not provided on social profiles.
Facebook is suing two websites for allegedly abusing its platforms to sell likes on Instagram and for data scraping of private information from users.
