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BrightData is another company offering hosted browsers who has also recently leaked private data, although they did email customers to warn them. I wonder if b
by jstanley 7mo ago
BrightData is another company offering hosted browsers who has also recently leaked private data, although they did email customers to warn them.
I wonder if both of these companies were compromised by a shared vulnerability in headless Chrome? Or else just a coincidence that 2 headless browser companies got hacked at the same time?
I run a headless browser fingerprinting project and have found that URLs that I only fetched via BrightData have subsequently had fetches by Anthropic's Claudebot.
I think most likely an attacker who has the customer data is using Claude to analyse it.
- nurettin 7mo agoBrightdata? Isn't that the israeli firm formerly called luminati that sells you shady "high quality residential IPs" that you can rotate to scrape the web?
- timpera 7mo agoYes, that's the one. Their residential IPs service is one of the best ones, but their "ethically sourced proxies" claim seems dubious at best.
- bright2026 7mo agoHistorically, their residential proxies came from backdoored proxies of HolaVPN users.
- preinheimer 7mo agoThere was a research paper several years ago showing that the "residential IP" stuff is powered by botnets and compromised devices. Luminati is specifically called out. Paper: https://xianghang.me/files/resi_paper.pdf https://xianghang.me/files/resi_paper.pdf Medium Article: https://medium.com/@xianghangmi/resident-evil-understanding-residential-ip-proxy-as-a-dark-service-dea9010a0e29 https://medium.com/@xianghangmi/resident-evil-understanding-...
- jstanley 7mo agoYes. Their hosted browser service is one of the best ones out there.
- ikidd 7mo agoNow I remember these scumbags. Hijacked HolaVPN I think.