Email addresses of more More than 200 million users on Twitter stolen by hackers and posted on a online said a security researcher on Wednesday.
Rags” unfortunately lead Much of Hacking, Phishing and Information Dispensation,” Elon Gal, co-founder of It was written by Hudson Rock, an Israeli cybersecurity monitoring firm on linkedin. he called itone of The most important leaks I’ve seen.”
Twitter did not comment on report that gal first posted About on social media on December 24, and has not responded to inquiries about the breach since that date. was not clear What action, if any, Twitter took to investigate or correct issue.
screenshots of Hackers forum where the data appeared on Wed, it was circulated online.
Troy Hunt, creator of Breach notification site Have I been pwned, view file leaked data said on Twitter that it looked “pretty much what it was described as”.
There were no clues to the identity of or location of hacker or hackers behind rags. Maybe it took place As early as 2021, that is, before Elon Musk took over Property of company last year.
Claims about size and scope of Rags differed initially with early accounts in December says 400 million email addresses and phone numbers were stolen.
A major Twitter breach may interest regulators on Both sides of Atlantic Ocean. Data Protection Committee in Ireland, where Twitter is based in Europe, and the US Federal Trade Commission has been monitoring the Elon Musk-owned company for Compliance with European data protection rules And the US approval order respectively.
