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Yep, but its only the Metadata[1]. I can't log in to your instance, but because your instance has consumed content from beehaw from my account I'm listed.
See https://lemmy.ninja/u/rknuu@beehaw.org
People from different instances are not able to login on your instance. For example you might see me in the people table, but local should be false. People registered on your instance shows up on local_users and on people with local set to true.
There have been mass registrations going on recently. Imagine my surprise when my 3 people instance had 460 users but no one online today. Took my instance down to investigate and deleted all local users in person table except the known users. Not the cleanest way to do it but I don't think I broke anything :D
That reminds me of an incident we had.
On of our customers sites suddenly had hundred's of new signups.
It turns out a hacker tried to fuzz the site,
and since there was no captcha/spam protection in the signup form he created hundred's of accounts.