Contact & Contact Contact: Was Clubhouse leaking nearly 4 billion phone numbers?

The social network Clubhouse, created last year, caused a lot of hype with its very appearance, but over time

interest in her began to disappear. Now Clubhouse is in the news again, this time due to a data leak.

What happened?

The leak was reported by a Swiss expert on issuesdigital security and data protection Marc Ruef. According to him, hackers fell into the hands of 3.8 billion telephone numbers - these are the numbers of mobile and landline telephones of both individuals and companies. And the hackers intend to sell this entire database at a private auction on September 4, 2021.

Moreover, these are not only the numbers of Clubhouse users, but also their contacts.

“Database of 3.8 billion phone numbersClubhouse users are put up for sale on the Darknet. It also contains the numbers of people in the users' phone books that have been synced. Thus, there is a high probability that you are included in the list, even if you did not have access to the club,” the message says.

Today, Clubhouse representatives commented on this information and stated that they had no leak:

“There is a series of bots generating billionsrandom phone numbers. In the event that one of these random numbers exists on our platform due to a mathematical match, the Clubhouse API does not return information that identifies the user."

Apart from this, security experts say that the data leak claim appears to be fake as the alleged Clubhouse data only contains mobile numbers without names.

Let us remember that Clubhouse was originally created asa social network of voice messages where people come together to communicate, listen and learn from each other in real time. Access there was only by invitation, but recently, on July 21, the company made the application available to all users on the iOS and Android platforms.

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