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Database breach exposes profile data for 235M TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube accounts

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<p>A database breach has exposed profile data for nearly 235 million users of <a aria-label="undefined (opens in a new tab)" href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/tiktok/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TikTok[/url], <a aria-label="undefined (opens in a new tab)" href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/instagram/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Instagram[/url], and <a aria-label="undefined (opens in a new tab)" href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/youtube/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">YouTube[/url].</p>
<p>The data appears to have been collected by a practice known as web-scraping, where a company accesses the web interface of a service and then collates data automatically … </p>
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