Last week the online community got the details in a 404 Media exposé that the Spy Pet site has been orchestrating a massive data mining operation. Discord, the popular communication platform, with nearly 620 million users was the victim of the digital theft.
Kotaku reported that the Spy Pet closed down shortly after the exposé was published online.
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Spy Pet: Data Mining Menace
The clandestine operation, codenamed Spy Pet, recently came under scrutiny following a damning exposé by journalist co-op 404 Media.
Operating under the radar for several months, a network of automated “self-botting” accounts, programmed to scour approximately 14,000 Discord servers was mining private data. The hack attack acquired a massive amount of data.
