The Clubhouse app confirms a security breach on its platform

The iPhone Clubhouse's social media audio application is receiving more attention these days from users as well as the media, especially as it is still confined to a minority of users as it relies on the calling system, and it has not yet reached Android, but a security problem has troubled its mind The application

New information indicated a few days ago that the Clubhouse application witnessed a leak of the data of a number of its users, and the developer of the application says that Clubhouse contains a feature of privacy and data protection since the possibility of recording conversations and thus leakage from the application is not possible, but a number of researchers Americans in information security indicated a security breach in the application that caused, as we mentioned, this leak

For its part, the developer of the Clubhouse application indicated to Bloomberg Economic News that the matter is correct and that it has monitored the leak and the user behind it and has banned it permanently, and Clubhouse said that it has put in place what it called new preventive measures in order to protect the talks from leakage and guarantee This problem will not occur again, and it seems that the application will not tolerate it again because the security of conversations is among the main points on which the Clubhouse is based

On the other hand, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC, citing the head of technology at Stanford University's Internet Observatory, "David Thiel", indicated that the matter was not related to piracy or leakage, but rather a deliberate violation of Clubhouse application laws by one of the users, and that there is a difference between Data leakage and data breach, as confirmed by Australian cybersecurity researcher Robert Potter, who pointed out that the concerned user realized that it is possible to be in different chat rooms at the same time and added: “If you are famous, people will create a third-party application that Scraping data from the service, for example all third-party programs that remove information from Twitter "