An ongoing competition’s data on Kaggle is reportedly exposed. Experts on the platform are calling it a “data breach”.

“I am not sure if it is the right leaderboard, but I am able to see my private leaderboard rank,” wrote one of the users who has also added screenshots in a discussion thread related to a competition titled “RANZCR CLiP” . 

“I was able to get it by looking at the network requests and responses on the leaderboard page,” added the user. 

At this point Kaggle should make a public statement, demanded Luca Massaron, former top-10 Kaggle master. “Explaining for how long that has been exposed and if that has been exploited by someone. When such a thing happens in a company, we call it a “data breach”, and this is truly a data breach for the importance of the critical information that leaked out without anyone being aware of it.”

“This is an important bug please fix it,” warned Kaggle Master Hiroki Yamamoto. He has also given a quick guide on how to check this:

  1. Go to Leaderboard
  2. open Devtool -> Network -> Reload
  3. XHR only->select getUser request
  4. result->team, maybe you can see your public/private score and ranking.

Kaggle is yet to release any public statement. However, one of the staffers at Kaggle tried to douse the fire. “Please know we’re aware of this, looking into it, and working on it! It may take a little bit of time for us to release a full statement as we evaluate the full breadth and depth of the issue, including which competitions may have been impacted and the full extent of the impact on leaderboard results. Thanks for your patience! We’ll let you know when we know more,” requested Addison Howard, Project Manager at Kaggle.

RANZCR CLiP competition has tasked the participants to detect the presence and position of catheters and lines on chest x-ray using machine learning models and, to categorize a tube that is poorly placed. The prize money is a hefty $50,000 and there are still 3 months to go. 

(Watch this space for more updates)

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