A big privacy problem happened at Friend.tech. They had a leak and 101,000 users' private info got out. A person named Banteg shared this info on GitHub. He found details of 101,000 Friend.tech users.
The leaked info included their wallet addresses and Twitter usernames. Banteg said that over 101,000 people let Friend.tech post on their behalf, and this got out in a database leak. But there's more to the problem. Banteg said that users might not have understood how much permission they were giving to Friend.tech.
This all started when people found out that Friend.tech's system accidentally showed private info through its interface. This let people see users' wallets and Twitter usernames.
Friend.tech is a new platform where people can buy and sell parts of their social networks. There's a fee when people do this, and the project is built on Coinbase's technology.
When this leak happened, Friend.tech tried to say it wasn't a big deal. They claimed the info was already public through their system, like looking at public tweets.
This is a big worry because Friend.tech was growing fast. They got lots of famous people to join and made over $1.42 million in fees in a day. The person behind the project, Racer, made other social networks using digital tokens before. With Friend.tech, Racer wants to get crypto influencers to join and make money from trading fees. They also want to make good connections in the crypto industry.
