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Data of 235 million Instagram, TikTok and YouTube users exposed – Deccan Herald
Due to the dubious storage methods, a social media analytics company has exposed nearly hundreds of million user profiles from Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. Apparently, Social Data, a company known for legally selling influential social media users’ data to…
Due to the dubious storage methods, a social media analytics company has exposed nearly hundreds of million user profiles from Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.
Apparently, Social Data, a company known for legally selling influential social media users’ data to marketing companies, did not even incorporate password protection nor set-up any authentication process to access the database. Some hackers got their hands on this data and dumped it in dark websites.
The data dump contained personal inf…
