The team behind the viral decentralized social media platform friend.tech has refuted a report which claimed that the personal information of more than 100,000 of its users was “leaked.” 

The now-amended report, first posted by The Block, suggested that data posted by Banteg, a pseudonymous developer for Yearn Finance, was “leaked” information.

The friend.tech team however clarified that the information came from scraping its public API.

“It’s like saying someone hacked you by looking at your public Twitter feed,” the official friend.tech account argued.

This is just someone scraping our public API that shows the association between public wallet addresses and public Twitter usernames.

It’s like saying someone hacked you by looking at your public Twitter feed.

Irresponsible reporting from @TheBlock_ and @vishal4c https://t.co/GIXOWazqBk

— friend.tech (@friendtech) August 21, 2023

The post also received input from X’s (formerly known as Twitter) Community Notes contributors.

“The underlying data is public and anybody can work it out reading a block explorer: if you buy a share, 5% goes to the creator’s wallet and he will have needed to fund his wallet. The database only scraps that public info,” read the community note.

Banteg originally published a repository of the publicly-available scraped data, containing details of users on the friend.tech platform on GitHub.

101,183 people has given friend tech access to posting as them, leaked db indicateshttps://t.co/yYYDqzUoON

— banteg (@bantg) August 21, 2023

This data included wallet addresses on Base, linked to the corresponding Twitter usernames for more than 101,000 users.

“101,183 people have given friend.tech access to post as them, leaked db (database) indicates,” Banteg wrote.

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