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Scraped data of 2.6 million Duolingo users released on hacking forum (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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The scraped data of 2.6 million DuoLingo users was leaked on a hacking forum, allowing threat actors to conduct targeted phishing attacks using the exposed information.

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[-] snorkbubs@fedia.io 23 points 1 year ago

This part is also, ummm, interesting...

BleepingComputer has confirmed that this API is still openly available to anyone on the web, even after its abuse was reported to DuoLingo in January.

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