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Chess.com Data Leak Exposes 7.3 Million Users Via Scraping

A 15.5 GB file containing records for over 7.3 million Chess.com users has appeared on data leak forums, offered freely without any ransom demands. Technical analysis confirms the data is authentic and recent, but evidence suggests it was obtained through large-scale scraping rather than a direct breach of Chess.com's servers.

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ShieldFont Fights AI Scraping With Deceptive Text

A new web font, ShieldFont, has been developed to combat AI scraping by presenting different text to human readers than to automated crawlers. Created by Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio with support from the Playtype type foundry, ShieldFont launched in October 2025. It works by displaying one set of words on screen while embedding a different, decoy set of words in the page's source code.