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Privacy Tip #248 – Social Media Data Leak Exposes Millions of User Profiles

By Linn Foster Freedman on August 20, 2020
Posted in Privacy Tips

If you use social media frequently, especially TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, you may want to take note of a recent report by a security research team at Comparitech that an unsecured database has exposed 235 million Instagram, TikTok and YouTube user profiles. The exposed information may have included profile names, real names, profile photos, and…

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