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According to security researchers from pro-consumer website Comparitech, an unsecured database<\/a> was behind this data breach<\/a>.
\"The data was spread across several datasets and the most significant being two coming in at just under 100 million each and containing profile records apparently scraped from Instagram,\" reports Forbes, quoting the security researchers.
The third-largest was a dataset of some 42 million TikTok users, followed by nearly 4 million YouTube user profiles.
One in five records contained either a telephone number or email address of the users, along with profile name, full real name, profile photo, account description and number of followers and likes, etc.
\"The information would probably be most valuable to spammers and cybercriminals running phishing<\/a> campaigns,\" said Paul Bischoff, Editor at Comparitech.
\"Even though the data is publicly accessible, the fact that it was leaked in aggregate as a well-structured database makes it much more valuable than each profile would be in isolation,\" Bischoff said in the report on Thursday.
According to the researchers, the leaked data points to a company called Deep Social banned by both Facebook<\/a> and Instagram in 2018 after scraping user profile data.
\"Scraping people's information from Instagram is a clear violation of our policies. We revoked Deep Social's access to our platform in June 2018 and sent a legal notice prohibiting any further data collection,\" a Facebook spokesperson was quoted as saying.
According to Comparitech, data marketing company Social Data later shut the unsecured database after it was reported to them.
\"Social Data has denied any connection between itself and Deep Social,\" according to the Comparitech report.
Earlier this month, a hacker group known as ShinyHunters flooded a hacker forum with 386 million user records stolen from 18 companies.
According to BleepingComputer, ShinyHunters began uploading the databases to a forum where anyone can download them free of charge. Of the databases released since July 21, nine of them were already disclosed in some manner in the past.<\/body>","next_sibling":[{"msid":77669745,"title":"Pixel Buds adds bass control, real-time audio translation","entity_type":"ARTICLE","link":"\/news\/pixel-buds-adds-bass-control-real-time-audio-translation\/77669745","category_name":null,"category_name_seo":"telecomnews"}],"related_content":[],"msid":77669775,"entity_type":"ARTICLE","title":"Data of 235mn Instagram, YouTube, TikTok users exposed: Report","synopsis":"At least 235 million users of Facebook-owned Instagram, China-based TikTok and Google-owned YouTube have been hit by a massive data leak and their personal profiles were up for grabs on the Dark Web.","titleseo":"telecomnews\/data-of-235mn-instagram-youtube-tiktok-users-exposed-report","status":"ACTIVE","authors":[],"analytics":{"comments":0,"views":655,"shares":0,"engagementtimems":2652000},"Alttitle":{"minfo":""},"artag":"IANS","artdate":"2020-08-21 12:04:28","lastupd":"2020-08-21 12:07:11","breadcrumbTags":["YouTube","data breach","phishing","unsecured database","data leak","TikTok","facebook","Security hacker","Instagram","Internet"],"secinfo":{"seolocation":"telecomnews\/data-of-235mn-instagram-youtube-tiktok-users-exposed-report"}}" data-authors="[" "]" data-category-name="" data-category_id="" data-date="2020-08-21" data-index="article_1">
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数据235 mn Instagram, YouTube, TikTok用户暴露:报告
Facebook-owned Instagram的至少有2.35亿用户,中国TikTok和国有YouTube受到大规模数据泄漏和他们的个人资料被黑暗网络上待价而沽。
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根据这种网站Comparitech,安全研究人员无担保的数据库这背后是数据泄露。
“数据是分布在几个数据集和最重要的两个进来还不到1亿人,包含配置文件记录显然从Instagram刮,“《福布斯》报道,援引安全研究人员。
第三大的数据集4200万TikTok用户,紧随其后的是近400万YouTube用户配置文件。
五分之一记录包含电话号码或电子邮件地址的用户,以及配置文件名称,完整的真实姓名,照片,帐户描述和数量的追随者,喜欢,等等。
“可能是最有价值的信息垃圾邮件发送者和网络罪犯运行网络钓鱼活动,”保罗说,编辑Comparitech。
“即使数据是公开的,这一事实被泄露在总体结构良好的数据库使它更有价值比隔离,每个概要文件将“比肖夫周四在报告中称。
据研究人员介绍,数据泄露给一家名为深社会禁止脸谱网并在2018年Instagram刮后用户配置文件数据。
“刮人的信息从Instagram明显违反了我们的政策。我们取消了深刻的社会获得平台2018年6月,派出了一个法律通知,禁止任何进一步的数据收集,”Facebook的发言人说。
根据Comparitech、数据营销公司社会数据后关闭无担保数据库据报道。
“社会数据否认本身之间的联系和深刻的社会,“根据Comparitech报告。
本月早些时候,一个黑客团体被称为ShinyHunters淹没黑客论坛,3.86亿年从18家公司窃取的用户记录。
根据BleepingComputer ShinyHunters开始上传数据库的一个论坛,任何人都可以免费下载。数据库发布的7月21日以来,九人已经以某种方式披露在过去。
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