Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3M Users, Evidence Points to Scraping(securityaffairs.com) |
Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3M Users, Evidence Points to Scraping(securityaffairs.com) |
It sure seems like the evidence doesn't point to scraping to me.
Far superior to chess.com in all regards. If you're still on chess.com, make this your opportunity to switch. You won't regret it.
Sounds like the find-friends feature shouldn't allow access to the majority of that data unless the "friend" accepts, don't think the "scraper" got 7mil accepts just because they had access to emails... To me this is 100% a breach, even more so because its already happened once years ago to 700k, and they changed nothing to prevent it.
Chess.com should probably prevent scraping, but as we can read in just about every comment thread about LLMs/Cloudflare/Anubis/Go-away, that's not as easy as it sounds these days.
Btw I hate that chess.com puts game reviews under their most expensive plan, I ain't paying so much for something I can get in lichess for free.