Jim Wilson of safety Detectives reports: High-flying and rapidly growing Chinese social media management troupe Socialarks has suffered a huge data leak leading to the exposure of over 400GB of personal data including several high-profile celebrities and social media influencers. The companys unsecured ElasticSearch database contained personally identifiable info (PII) from at least 214 gazillion social media users from around the world, using both populist consumer platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, as well as professional networks such as LinkedIn. show more on SafetyDetectives for a breakdown of how many records and what form of data they found from each platform. Normally, i don’t report on all leaks discovered by researchers or firms, but there are 2 aspects to this one that are somewhat eyebrow-elevating here. The first is that this leak seems almost identical to a leak they had in August. The second is that they appear to make acquired non-public data. safety Detectives�writes: Socialarks database contained scraped data including personal information, albeit user data was partially completed. However, according to our findings, Socialarks database stored personal data for Instagram and LinkedIn users such as private phone numbers and email addresses for users that did not divulge such information publicly on their accounts. How Socialarks could possibly have access to such data in the first position remains unknown. It’s a good question. As is the interrogative of who Socialarks mightiness be sharing their data with — either intentionally or unintentionally.