More than 200 million claimed leaked and stolen data records relating to x users have been posted on a popular hacker forum What you need to know. Hackers on the illicit marketplace breach forums have disseminated a massive dataset allegedly containing 2.9 billion twitter (x) user records Although most of the data in a leak is public, cybercriminals can still find many uses for it A threat actor hiding under the moniker thinkingone claims it obtained a massive new leak, the largest social media breach ever. the hacker. Researchers at cyber press discovered a 9.4gb leaked twitter user data containing nearly 200 million user data records
This leak, sourced from a twitter database or scrape, represents one of the largest exposures of user data in recent times The leaked data includes email addresses, names, and twitter account details, leaving users vulnerable to phishing attacks, identity theft, and social. More than 200 million twitter accounts, including email addresses, were leaked this week, raising privacy and security concerns Hackread reports that x, formerly known as twitter, had over 2.8 billion individuals' profile data exposed on breach forums by the threat actor thinkingone, who claimed the information to have been stolen by a former employee amid widespread layoffs at the u.s In june 2021, twitter introduced an unintended vulnerability within its application programming interface (api), which inadvertently enabled attackers to correlate users' email addresses and phone numbers directly with their twitter accounts Although initially unnoticed, this security flaw persisted within the
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