- Hong Kong-registered company that sells data on social media influencers exposed as many as 235 million user profiles scraped from Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube on web without password or any other authentication required to access it, according to report by British research firm Comparitech. https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3098156/nearly-235-million-social-media-profiles-instagram-tiktok-and-youtube 5 comments worldnews