After Facebook and LinkedIn, Clubhouse is also at the center of a news report of data dissemination, which however the voice-only platform denies is a data breach or theft. In recent days, Cyber News researchers have spread the news that a database with information on 1.3 million Clubhouse users, obtained through the scraping technique, that is an exflitration of data, has been published in a well-known hacker forum automatic, through software.
According to the statements of the company, disseminated through the official Twitter profile, no data breach or any violation to the detriment of the platform would have been recorded and the data published by alleged hackers were already publicly available and anyone could access it through their official API, that is the application programming interface.
This is misleading and false. Clubhouse has not been breached or hacked. The data referred to is all public profile information from our app, which anyone can access via the app or our API. https://t.co/I1OfPyc0Bo
— Clubhouse (@joinClubhouse) April 11, 2021
Clubhouse is a voice-only and streaming social network, it was launched a year ago but gained popularity earlier this year thanks to a loan that has increased the value of the platform. According to recent rumors, Twitter tried to buy Clubhouse for $ 4 billion, a purchase that was not successful. Meanwhile, both Twitter, Facebook, and a number of other social networks have copied the Clubhouse voice-only feature.