The team behind the viral decentralized social media platform friend.tech has refuted a report which claimed that the personal information of more than 100,000 of its users was \u201cleaked.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The now-amended report, first posted by The Block, suggested that data posted by Banteg, a pseudonymous developer for Yearn Finance, was \u201cleaked\u201d information.<\/p>\n
The friend.tech team however clarified that the information came from scraping its public API.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s like saying someone hacked you by looking at your public Twitter feed,\u201d the official friend.tech account argued.<\/p>\n
The post also received input from X\u2019s (formerly known as Twitter) Community Notes contributors. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe underlying data is public and anybody can work it out reading a block explorer: if you buy a share, 5% goes to the creator’s wallet and he will have needed to fund his wallet. The database only scraps that public info,\u201d read the community note. <\/p>\n
Banteg originally published a repository of the publicly-available scraped data, containing details of users on the friend.tech platform on GitHub. <\/p>\n
This data included wallet addresses on Base, linked to the corresponding Twitter usernames for more than 101,000 users.<\/p>\n
\u201c101,183 people have given friend.tech access to post as them, leaked db (database) indicates,\u201d Banteg wrote. <\/p>\n
Banteg also gave criticism to the inaccurate interpretation of their initial post.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, X users also joined in to poke fun at the situation, with one user Satsdart posting a link to the Ethereum block explorer, humorously claiming that he had discovered \u201ca leaked database showing ALL transactions on eth.\u201d<\/p>\n
Notably, Banteg\u2019s release of the data followed a post from blockchain analytics service Spot On Chain which found that friend.tech\u2019s API revealed specific sets of information not immediately available to everyday users of the app. <\/p>\n