Technique

web scraping

technique:web_scraping Also: automatic scraper, scraper, scraping

Automated retrieval of exposed Aadhaar-card data and website records using scripts.

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Relationships

Direction Predicate Other entity Origin EP
incoming USES Elliot Alderson Explicit 49
incoming INVOLVES Indane Aadhaar-number exposure Explicit 49
incoming USES Chris Monteiro Explicit 156

Claims

Elliot Alderson USES web scraping

Elliot created an automatic scraper to retrieve Aadhaar data from publicly accessible sources.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Elliot Alderson EP 49 Details

“I created an automatic scraper in order to retrieve all the data automatically.”

Elliot Alderson · offsets 15762–15841

Indane Aadhaar-number exposure INVOLVES web scraping

Elliot used an automatic scraper to enumerate the exposed Indane records and estimate the scale of the exposure.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Elliot Alderson EP 49 Details

“I wrote an automatic scraper in order to do my request automatically.”

Elliot Alderson · offsets 22731–22800

“It was 6,700,000.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 23832–23849

Chris Monteiro USES web scraping

Chris scraped kill orders from the site, including in near-real time.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Carl Miller EP 156 Details

“He’s beginning to scrape these kill orders”