Data Viper, a company dealing with monitoring threats, data leaks and cybersecurity breaches, announced the leak of 1.2 billion users that hit the black market, the so-called darknet.

The database contains 4 terabytes of data, which includes names, surnames, phone numbers as well as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn profiles.
It may seem that the leak is quite serious, however, the collected data comes from data scraping, i.e. technique for collecting information from public profiles that is shared by users themselves.

According to the Data Viper assessment, the data comes from two different companies dealing with expanding of personal data, i.e. having one information such as name and surname and supplementing it with another such as email address or a phone number.