A security researcher found a database with almost 235 million social media profiles scraped from the Internet. The data contained names, contact information, personal information, images and statistics. Social Data denies collecting data not already available online, but the simple act of scraping and matching public data is not allowed. A few hours after the incident was reported, Social Data took the databases down, but its challenging to identify traffic from organizations such as Social Data. Compiling data from different sources creates a clearer image of the digital persona.”]