Account details of 1.3M Clubhouse users published on hacking forum

SECURITY Account details of 1.3M Clubhouse users published on hacking forum Clubhouse has seemingly suffered another data breach, with details of 1.3 million users published on a hacking forum but the audio-based social app provider claims it wasn’t hacked and that the data was pulled through their application programming interface. The data, which ended up on Raid Forums, was advertised as offering user I.D., photo, username, Twitter name, Instagram name, number of followers, number of people followed by the user and account creation data. In a sign that Clubhouse has a serious issue about being oversensitive, the company posted the following on Twitter, responding to Cybernews, which broke the story Saturday, saying the data had been posted for free online. This is misleading and false. Clubhouse has not been breached or hacked. The data referred to is all public profile information from our app, which anyone can access via the app or our API. https://t.co/I1OfPyc0Bo — Clubhouse (@joinClubhouse) April 11, 2021 The bigger question is why a company that operates as a closed shop and doesn’t allow Android users is opening up all of its user data via an application programming interface so it can be taken and posted to begin…
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