Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3M Users, Evidence Points to Scraping

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7.3 million Chess.com profiles leaked online: the data is genuine, but evidence points to large-scale scraping, not a server breach. Ransomnews’s technical analysis confirms the data is real and recent. Those are marketing-stack fields, not profile data. Roughly three-quarters of records include an email address. Proving this data is genuine didn’t require touching chess.com’s servers at all.

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