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As someone who is part of the Hack Club community, I would urge caution before blindly trusting this account.

- This person has also used their access to attempt to extort the admins and their Airtable data, demanding a bounty payment for access they were previously given. - In her arguments about the program leads earning higher bounties, they had said that they both did bounties for Coinbase and Google, neither of which being non-profits - Many of her arguments are flawed in other ways.

Theo (yes the ffmpeg guy) also commented on it in a livestream, and I would just point to that:

> This feels really in the weeds of something we are not supposed to see externally. It is a lot of writing for what seems like clueless people doing backend

>>Agreed+(OP)
>As someone who is part of the Hack Club community, I would urge caution before blindly trusting this account.

As the parent of a Hack Clubber, a lot of what is said here rings true to our experience with the Hack Club leadership.

>>Agreed+(OP)
They created a new website just for this topic, and named it "kill yourself LLC". Not something you'd do if you wanted to be taken seriously, just IMO. Smells more like a KiwiFarms user.

However there's still no excuse for these problems if they are describing it correctly. When you're storing the home address of thousands of users, (1) you shouldn't do that at all for this type of organisation and (2) you should be very careful to protect it and (3) the first several times it gets stolen, you should think harder about whether your protection is working and there should never be a several+1th time.

>>Agreed+(OP)
As someone who is/was also a part of the hack club community, this article is mostly correct. I've seen most of these events occur second hand as well in real time and can mostly corroborate with the accuracy of the article, except the minors in legal roles part. The community is severely mismanaged, data leaks happen often in very predicable ways and it does seem as if much of it is symptoms of vibe coding.

>>immibi+ls
I am not the OP but I think I know the back story behind this name and if I'm not wrong, it is related to events that went down in hackclub revolving a suicide attempt in HC being taken unseriously.

>>Agreed+(OP)
For context, this is the Theo clip: https://files.catbox.moe/1i7w08.mp4

It's a really long article so he only seemed to read a few paragraphs about the security vulnerability and then said the line while scrolling too fast to read all of the other points. Can't blame him, not going to lie.