Twitter News Desk!!! As Elon Musk works to completely overhaul Twitter, at least 5.4 million Twitter user records have been stolen through an internal bug and leaked online on a hacker forum. In addition to the 5.4 million records for online sale, an additional 1.4 million Twitter profiles were collected using a separate Twitter application programming interface (API) that has allegedly been shared privately among certain people. As Bleeping Computer reports, the massive amount of data scraped includes public information as well as private phone numbers and email addresses that are not public. Security expert Chad Loader first reported the news on Twitter and was soon suspended. Lauder posted on Twitter, “I recently received evidence of a massive data breach affecting millions of Twitter accounts in the EU and US. I contacted one of the affected accounts and they have confirmed that the data breached is accurate. This violation did not happen before 2021. Data containing non-public information was stolen using a Twitter API vulnerability fix in January this year. The data was collected using a Twitter API vulnerability disclosed in the HackerOne bug bounty program in December 2021, the report said on Sunday. Gone.
Most of the data includes public information such as Twitter ID, name, login name, location and verified status. It also includes personal information such as phone numbers and email addresses. Musk or Twitter have yet to comment on the report. According to the report, as the hackers released 5.4 million records online, a huge data dump has been created allegedly using the same vulnerability. We were told it contained over 17 million records, the report said, but could not independently confirm this.
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