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  Shank
  > Every record has gam_audiences and audiences_member_of populated, Google Ad Manager audience segments, with values like coach-nudge experiment groups, trial eligibility, lapsed-user cohorts and rating-band targeting.It sure seems like the evidence doesn't point to scraping to me.
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  sidrag22
  > The data had been pulled by abusing the platform’s find-friends featureSounds like the find-friends feature shouldn't allow access to the majority of that data unless the "friend" accepts, don't think the "scraper" got 7mil accepts just because they had access to emails... To me this is 100% a breach, even more so because its already happened once years ago to 700k, and they changed nothing to prevent it.
• dwroberts
  Worth noting this was reported back in August, it’s not new
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  Lucasoato
  I just got a message from an Hacker: "You seriously just played London opening as white and King Indian defense as black for the last 3 months?"Btw I hate that chess.com puts game reviews under their most expensive plan, I ain't paying so much for something I can get in lichess for free.
• nilslindemann
  I just logged in to delete my chess.com account, got a message: "This account is closed, please log in with your e-Mail to reactivate". No word by them having been hacked.
• MiroslavPokorny
  Hack or scraping, both are equally bad.
• m00x
  uh oh. If my ELO gets back to my friends I'm going to be very embarrassed.
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  TheSpacerr
  Basically our data is free.
• efilife
  What's the forum shown in the screenshot?
• ed_mercer
  email? Is a user's email up for grabs just like that?
• unixhero
  Is scraping wrong that, is the question.
• lhk931122
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