VK 2024

A massive data collection involving the Russian social network VKontakte surfaced in the summer of 2024. The incident involves the scraping of approximately 390 million user records. The dataset includes personal identifiers such as full names, gender, profile links, and direct links to user avatars. While not a direct system breach or hack of VK servers, this large scale automated extraction highlights significant privacy concerns as it aggregates public and semi public information into a structured database for potential misuse in social engineering or profiling.