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Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3 Million Users — Evidence Points to Scraping
A free 15.5 GB leak exposed 7.3 million Chess.com user records; analysis suggests large-scale scraping via find-friends rather than a server breach.
A 15.5 GB dump containing 7,337,395 Chess.com records appeared on leak forums posted by user V0idix at no cost. Ransomnews confirmed the data is genuine by validating embedded v1 UUID timestamps against registration dates, but found daily-batch collection over nine days and ~7.4% duplicate records, pointing to scraping. The schema includes emails, ratings, subscription tiers and internal Google Ad Manager audience segments not exposed in the public API, and contains no passwords or payment data. Chess.com reported a similar 828,000-record 2023 leak from find-friends abuse and said then that it was not a breach.
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Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack
Compromise of an AI software package led to scraping and exfiltration of terabytes of credentials from about 2,500 users.
A supply-chain attack involving a compromised AI software package resulted in data being scraped and exfiltrated. Roughly 2,500 users were affected, with terabytes of credentials leaked. The article provides limited technical detail on the package or attackers involved.
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