First, 267m records were exposed & sold for 0.0002 cents each on the Dark Web. It was taken down but got reposted with yet more records.
Tag Archives: scraping
LinkedIn can’t block public profile data scraping, court rules
The long-awaited decision found that automated scraping of publicly accessible data likely doesn’t violate the CFAA.
Is scraping files from a Freedom of Information website ‘hacking’?
A teen is being charged for downloading 7k records, 250 of which weren’t properly redacted. Who’s to blame?
Hooray! Facebook ditches searching for people by phone number or email
The account recovery feature allowed for scraping of any public profile data. Also this: CA actually may have gotten 87m users’ data.