Who are Socialarks?
What was leaked?
The database contained more than 408GB of data and more than 318 million records.
Celebrity Instagram profile including phone number and email address.
Our team discovered records from 3 major social media platforms: Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.
Instagram data
The Instagram index contained various popular personalities and online celebrities.
Celebrity Instagram profile including phone number and email address.
Celebrity Instagram profile including phone number and email address.
Notably, most of the phone numbers our team discovered originated from pages and not individuals.
How Socialarks could possibly have access to such data in the first place remains unknown.
It remains unclear how the company managed to obtain private data from multiple secure sources.
Instagram profile showing email and phone number despite information not being provided to Instagram.
The company did not respond to our correspondence but the server was secured on the same day.
Data breach impact
Data scraping is a means of extracting private information from a website.
Database search showing 66 million LinkedIn profile results including personal information such as job title, name and email address.
Importantly, data scraping is deemed to be a legal practise if it is done ethically.
In SocialArks case, private information was obtained from multiple sources and supplemented with scraped data.
Moreover, the companys server had insufficient security and was left completely unsecured.
Social media platforms like Facebook allow users to access third-party websites by using their existing Facebook login information.
Potential ramifications of exposing personal information include identity theft and financial fraud conducted across other platforms including online banking.
Users can also be targeted with clickthroughs that lead to the installation of harmful phishing and malware software.
Instagram profile showing email and phone number despite information not being provided to Instagram.
Celebrities and high-profile figures face some of the highest risk of cybersecurity flaws and leaked data.
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Published on: Jan 11, 2021
