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		izzydata on May 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Millions of Instagram influencers had their contac... I'm mostly suggesting that the word "scraped" is not being used correctly. If they used an API security flaw to access all of the private data then I wouldn't consider that scraping how the term is traditionally used.

barbecue_sauce on May 20, 2019 [–]

If that data is injected into the page (possibly without being visible), I would say that still counts as scraping.

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