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Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3 Million Users – Evidence Points to Scraping
By Pierluigi Paganini
Excerpt
7.3 million Chess.com profiles leaked online: the data is genuine, but evidence
points to large-scale scraping, not a server breach.
Free is a strange price for stolen data, and that’s exactly what makes this listing worth a second look. A 15.5 GB file containing over 7.3 million chess.com user records showed up on two data-leak forums this week, no cost, no ransom demand, just handed out. Ransomnews’s technical analysis confirms the data is real and recent. What it isn’t, on the evidence, is a hack.
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