![]() ![]() Even though DuoLingo has stated that this is not the result of a breach or hack, and that the records were obtained by “data scraping public information”, this may be scant consolation to those affected. Your threat model is not that of someone else’s, and we simply can’t predict how much of a big deal something which supposedly isn’t, is. The aggravatingly on-the-fence answer to this is often “it depends”. Is it a collection of supposedly secret things, or is it information which is (or was) intentionally publicly available? If it’s “only” available via a supposedly exposed API, is it catastrophic for the users if their language or achievements are revealed to the world? This all sounds very bad at first glance, but as with many data scraping incidents, a lot of it is heavily dependent on what kind of data has been obtained. Your big deal is someone else's tiny hiccup The post claims to offer many pieces of information, including: Starting price is $1,500 USD, but the price can be negotiated. I am selling 2.6 million DuoLingo account entries that were scraped from an exposed API. Scraping data for fun and profit, but mostly profitįrom the forum post, titled “DuoLingo 2.6 million entries scrape”: ![]() The latest target happens to be popular language platform DuoLingo, who is currently digging into a forum post concerning data related to its customer accounts. Not a week goes by where we don’t see an example of data scraping causing concern for both business and folks at home. ![]()
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