Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3 Million Users – Evidence Points to Scraping
Brief
- 3 million Chess. com profiles leaked online: the data is genuine, but evidence points to large-scale scraping, not a server breach.
Free is a strange price for stolen data, and that’s exactly what makes this listing worth a second look. A 15. 5 GB file containing over 7. 3 million chess. com user records showed up on two data-leak forums this week, no cost, no ransom demand, just handed out. Ransomnews’s technical analysis confirms the data is real and recent. What it isn’t, on the evidence, is a hack.
“The archive is a single 744 MB 7-Zip file that expands to a 15. 5 GB tab-separated table: one header row and 7,337,395 records, each with 38 fields. The schema is chess. com-specific throughout.