A Monday file from The Block claimed that a database of 101,000 buddy.tech customers linking their Ethereum pockets addresses and Twitter accounts had been leaked.

The file cited pseudonymous Yearn Finance contributor Banteg, who tweeted earlier in the day that folks who had former the platform had given it rep admission to to put up as them. Banteg also included a link to a GitHub repository with the user details which has since been removed.

About a hours after the file became made public, the buddy.tech group clarified in a tweet that the info became merely built from a net scraper which pulled data from their public utility programming interface (API).

Here’s apt anyone scraping our public API that shows the association between public pockets addresses and public Twitter usernames.

It’s like saying anyone hacked you by having a seek at your public Twitter feed.

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

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

Pal.tech is a Internet 3 social utility built on Coinbase’s Layer 2 community Defective that offers other folks the capacity to aquire and sell shares in Twitter accounts that have joined the platform, giving shareholders rep admission to to a non-public chatroom with the person gradual the myth.

When purchasing a portion of a determined myth, the model of that portion will crawl up, and equally, when a person sells a portion of that myth, the model moves down. When shares are traded, 5% of the portion model goes in direction of the buddy.tech treasury and 5% goes to the person gradual the portion.

The app went viral apt days after its launch, and in the closing 24 hours, it has generated over $1 million in costs, surpassing the Bitcoin blockchain and decentralized alternate Uniswap.

The platform has now renamed its “shares” of Twitter accounts to “keys,” saying it better illustrates their goal as in-app objects.