Barahla.net

Barahla.net a major Russian classifieds platform suffered a significant data exposure in August 2023. The incident involved large scale parsing of the website resulting in the collection of over 5 million user profiles and approximately 27 million advertisements. The scraped data includes personal identifiers such as names email addresses and phone numbers alongside details of listed goods. This event highlights the vulnerability of public facing platforms to automated data extraction tools which can aggregate huge volumes of user information for secondary use or sale on underground forums.