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Early April, more than a billion user profiles of Facebook, LinkedIn and Clubhouse users were either sold or shared for free on online hacker forums in less than a week.

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Satrio Pangarso Wisanggeni
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JAKARTA, KOMPAS – Incidents of personal data leaks on several online platforms last year have apparently carried over to this year with the recent finding of personal data sharing through the harvesting of public data by way of scraping or crawling.

Early April, more than a billion user profiles of Facebook, LinkedIn and Clubhouse users were either sold or shared for free on online hacker forums in less than a week.

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Syahnan Rangkuti
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