The scraped data of 2.6 million DuoLingo users was leaked on a hacking forum, allowing threat actors to conduct targeted phishing attacks using the exposed information.

  • chulo_sinhatche@lemmy.worldEnglish
    522·
    1 year ago

    Do the people that release these get paid somehow? Or do they just do it for hacker cred and say fuck these 2.6M people?

    • Dasnap@lemmy.worldEnglish
      40·
      1 year ago

      In January 2023, someone was selling the scraped data of 2.6 million DuoLingo users on the now-shutdown Breached hacking forum for $1,500.

      …

      As first spotted by VX-Underground, the scraped 2.6 million user dataset was released yesterday on a new version of the Breached hacking forum for 8 site credits, worth only $2.13.

      “Today I have uploaded the Duolingo Scrape for you to download, thanks for reading and enjoy!,” reads a post on the hacking forum.

      • snorkbubs@fedia.io
        14·
        1 year ago

        This part is also, ummm, interesting…

        BleepingComputer has confirmed that this API is still openly available to anyone on the web, even after its abuse was reported to DuoLingo in January.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.deEnglish
      26·
      1 year ago

      They’ll send fake emails where the green owl comes to collect “late fees” for your 216-day streak of missed Spanish lessons.