Comment on Scraped data of 2.6 million Duolingo users released on hacking forum

chulo_sinhatche@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨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.

  source

  • Chariotwheel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    HODL, the value will go up again for sure

    source
  • snorkbubs@fedia.io ⁨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.

    source
• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ⁨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.

  source

  • elvith@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We’ve been trying to reach you about your language course’s extended warranty…

    source
  • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’ll have to pay with Google play cards

    source
• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Both.

  source