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Clubhouse CEO Disputes Report of Data Being on Hacker Site

The CEO of audio chat app Clubhouse has hit back after a report that its users’ scraped data, like that of Facebook and LinkedIn, was posted on a forum used by hackers. So reports The Verge.

ClubhouseCyber News had reported that 1.3 million Clubhouse users’ profile information—including user ID, name, username, Twitter handle and Instagram handle—was leaked for free on the forum.

Although Clubhouse did not respond to The Verge’s requests for more information, Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison said during a town hall, “This is misleading and false, it is a clickbait article, we were not hacked. The data referred to was all public profile information from our app.”

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