Friend.tech Refutes Claims That A Database Containing More Than 100K Members Was Leaked

In response to a report that claimed that Friend.tech's API leaked user personal information, Friend.tech has fired back.

Source: www.coinkolik.com

The creators of the popular decentralized social networking platform Friend.tech have denied a story that more than 100,000 of its users' private information had been leaked. The now-corrected piece, which was first published by The Block, claimed that material supplied by Banteg, a developer working under the alias Yearn Finance, was leaked information. However, the Friend.tech team made it clear that the data was obtained by scraping their open API. The official Friend.tech account argued, It's like claiming someone hijacked you by looking at your personal Twitter feed. This is an individual using their open API to scrape the connections between public Twitter handles and wallet addresses. Comparable to claiming that you were hacked after someone looked at your public Twitter feed.

Contributors to X's (which used to be referred to as Twitter) Community Notes also provided feedback for the article. The underlying data is openly available, and anyone can figure it out by scanning a block explorer. If you purchase a share, 5% of the purchase price goes to the creator's wallet, which he will have had to pay. The community notice stated that the database only scrapes that public information. On GitHub, Banteg first made an archive of the publicly accessible scraped data, which included user information from the Friend.tech platform.

More than 101,000 users' Twitter usernames were connected to their digital wallet addresses on Base in this data. Leaked db (database) suggests that 101,183 users have permitted Friend.tech to publish as them. Banteg also criticized the incorrect reading of their original message. Users of X also joined in to make light of the situation at the same time; one of them, Satsdart, posted a jokey url to the Ethereum block explorer, and stated that they had discovered a hacked server revealing ALL transactions using ETH. It's noteworthy that Banteg released the data in response to a blog post from blockchain analytics startup Spot On Chain that discovered that Friend.tech's API disclosed specific types of data that were not instantly accessible to regular app users.

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