200 million Facebook, Instagram and Linkedin users' scraped data exposed
Chinese start-up Socialarks suffered a massive data breach, exposing more than 400GB of personal data, including several high-profile celebrities and social media influencers, according to Safety Detectives.
According to Anurag Sen, head of Safety Detectives cybersecurity team, the company’s unsecured ElasticSearch database, without password protection or encryption, contained personally identifiable information (PII) from at least 214 million (408GB) social media users from around the world, using both populist consumer platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, as well as professional networks such as LinkedIn.