NoCrackingZone | Tag | data scraping

Clearview AI loses entire database of faceprint-buying clients to hackers

Time to worry about how well the facial recognition startup protects its 3b+ database of faceprints scraped from our social media accounts?

The long-awaited decision found that automated scraping of publicly accessible data likely doesn’t violate the CFAA.

Most attacks are from botnets. The goals: spreading spam, stealing data, spreading propaganda, and social-engineering consumers for profit.

A “preferred Facebook Marketing Partner” is alleged to have tracked millions of Instagram users’ locations and stories.

Not much has changed since a year ago, when a bot was tweeting out publicly visible Venmo “drug” deals from the public-by-default company.

A security researcher has discovered a massive cache of data on millions of Instagram influencers, publicly accessible for everyone to see.

Players noticed that Epic Games was gathering and storing data from Steam accounts without their permission.

Downloaded by 63K users, the quizzes promised answers to questions such as “What kind of dog are you according to your zodiac sign?”

The account recovery feature allowed for scraping of any public profile data. Also this: CA actually may have gotten 87m users’ data.