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Scraped data of 2.6 million Duolingo users released on hacking forum (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope they don't fucking send me spam.

[–] art101@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Depending on how far you got, you might not understand it anyway.

[–] teft@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Mucho dinero en tu futuro! USD$80,000,000,000 Euro!

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

That's the thing that annoys me most about Duolingo: if they're going to show you ads, the least they could do is show you ones in the language you're trying to learn instead of your native one.