[dnate]

I feel like the lines between a data leak and large scale scraping are getting blurred. At least in their impact for the user. Which is a bad thing as it will support the "so what" attitude that many people have toward their data.

It is a fact that all this data is already being crawled by bot nets.

If all data is leaked at once, this is similar to a large scale successful crawling of the site. At least from a user perspective.

So I get what you are saying. It sounds more dramatic than it actually is. It is still a massive leak. But from a pool that scummy businesses have been thoroughly scooping from already anyway.

[unishark]

Are these details publicly-available for the scraping though?

I'd be suspicious it was an employee with internal access to the data or someone who had hacked such an employee's computer. Of course they wouldn't admit such criminal act and risk getting caught, they'd claim a route anyone could use.

[tjpnz]

If the geolocation data is fine grained I would hope not.