1.3M Clubhouse User Data Reportedly Leaked Online

Cyber News released a report last Saturday, April 10, 2021, detailing a Clubhouse data leak. Based on the article, approximately 1.3 million user accounts have been affected in the cybersecurity incident, with the personal data of users posted online on a popular hacker forum for free.

Founded in March of 2020, Clubhouse is an invite-only social media platform that provides users with the ability to communicate and have discourse with one another. This hybrid audio-chat social network of sorts gives users a platform to hose invite-only radio shows.

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According to The Verge, the app has seen a widely successful year. Despite being only available to iOS users, it has already amassed over 10 million downloads.

Clubhouse User Data Reportedly Leaked Online

Following its success, The Verge states that more companies and social media networks are gearing to follow in its stead by creating and launching their own social audio platforms. Some of these social networking sites include the likes of Discord, Linkedin, Slack, and Spotify, with Facebook planning to launch its own platform as well.

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Based on the findings of Cyber News, the leaked database contained numerous personal data of 1.3 million user profiles. Among the compromised information include the individual’s user ID, their name, their user name, and their photo URL. The account creation date, as well as the number of followers, have also been leaked on the hacker forum.

Apart from this, Cyber News also claimed that other social media-related details were also included in the list. These are the respective Instagram and Twitter handles of users. In addition to these, users who were invited to use the audio-chat platform also revealed the profile names of those who invited them as well as the number of people followed by the user.

While Clubhouse did not immediately reply for comment, it announced on Sunday, April 11, 2021, the personal user data leak was “false,” with the chief executive officer of the company, Paul Davison, saying at a town hall meeting that the app did not suffer from a data breach, reports The Verge.

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In a statement, Davison said, “No, this is misleading and fall, it is a clickbait article, we were not hacked. The data referred to was all public profile information from our app. So the answer to that is a definitive no.”

A similar statement was echoed and released on Clubhouse’s profile on Twitter, saying the company was “not breached or hacked… anyone can access via the app or our API.”

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