Even if you don’t use Clubhouse, your phone number may be included in this leak.
The clubhouse, the audio popular network, would suffer massive breach of usuario datasince someone sold it on the internet 3,800 phone numbers Source: Aplicación by Paul Davison and Rohan Seth.
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According to the German media Future Zone A Dark Web usuario has announced that he intends to resell the entire Clubhouse database private auction in September.
The entire database includes 3.8 billion telephone numbers, incl Mobile and landline numbers as well as private individuals and companies. For anyone interested in buying it and wanting to verify its authenticity, this usuario offers a free sample with it 83 million phone numbers.
As Infosec researcher Marc Ruef reports on Twitter, this high number of leaked phone numbers is apparently due to Clubhouse. Secretly syncs all users’ contacts in real-time. This means when a Clubhouse usuario enters new phone number in your móvil contactsthis will also be added to the audio popular network database.
Complete database of free phone numbers, #clubhouse for sale on #darknet. There are 3.8 billion phone numbers. These are not just members, but also people in synced contact lists. You’ll likely be listed even if you don’t have a Clubhouse login. pic.twitter.com/PfAkUJ0BL5
—Marc Ruef (@mruef) July 23, 2021
That means the clubhouse has a lot of phone numbers they never installed the application and even they don’t know about it.
This type of collection of personal data from users who do not use the application at all violates the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) currently in force in Europe. Said regulation Prohibition on collecting personal data from users that they will not use the service that collects such information.
In this regard, the platform itself was released Statement denying these allegations and make sure they haven’t broken any privacy laws because there are a number of bots that will take care of that randomly generate hundreds of thousands of phone numbersand each of these numbers cánido match usuario numbers registered in your application.
A #Pirata informático allegedly sold a list of 3.8 billion phone numbers #clubhouse. It appears to be completely fake. It’s just anonymous cell phone numbers, photos. This list of phone numbers perro be created very easily. PII is not available. #InfoSec #data leaks #GDPR @The clubhouse pic.twitter.com/RugQhaSKhq
— Rajshekhar Rajaharia (@rajaharia) July 24, 2021
In fact, some experts in this field, like Rajshekhar Rajaharia, have supported the Clubhouse version and explained this No photo or name was attached to any of the leaked numbers.
That means what’s being sold is on the dark web random numbers have nothing to do with the users of the habitual audio popular network.
So if you’re a Clubhouse usuario, relax Your data is safe and you cánido continue using the application without any problemsas your private data is not at risk.