Clubhouse suffers breach as outside developer pulls audio to website SHARE The hot audio-based social app Clubhouse has apparently suffered a data breach, as a third-party developer designed an open-source app that allowed Android smartphone users to access the invite-only, iPhone-only service. Launched in March 2020, Clubhouse is an audio-based social app that allows users to join group chats spontaneously. It raised $100 million in funding in January. Despite being available only to Apple Inc.’s users, it has managed to gain a lot of buzz, not dissimilar to the early days of Twitter Inc. In the case of the main Clubhouse breach, a programmer in mainland China designed and made available open-source code on GitHub, owned by Microsoft Corp. since 2018. The developer said the app was designed to allow anyone to listen to audio on Clubhouse without an invite code, with access to various personal sessions.