5.4 million Twitter users' stolen data leaked online — more shared privately

Lawrence Abrams

November 27, 2022
01:31 PM
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Over 5.4 million Twitter user records containing non-public information stolen using an API vulnerability fixed in January have been shared for free on a hacker forum.

Another massive, potentially more significant, data dump of millions of Twitter records has also been disclosed by a security researcher, demonstrating how widely abused this bug was by threat actors.

The data consists of scraped public information as well as private phone numbers and email addresses that are not meant to be public.

The Twitter data breach

Last July, a threat actor began selling the private information of over 5.4 million Twitter users on a hacking forum for $30,000. . ."

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