Twitter: Email addresses of millions of people stolen

witter: Email addresses of millions of people stolen:

According to estimates, data purportedly containing the email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users is being distribute for free on a theft site. Twitter: Email addresses of millions of people stolen.

Email addresses used to create accounts are among the stolen data, which will scare anonymous individuals who used a private address to register.

The kisasian.show has not validated the material, and data breaches frequently turn out to be duplicate, outdated, or fabricated data. Requests for comments about the incident have received no response from Twitter.

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The breach was discovere by Alon Gal of the cybercrime information company Hudson Rock, who called it “major” and stated it contained more than 200 million email addresses.

Doxxing is the act of disclosing details about someone that can be use to identify them. The content, which must be unlocked by spending 20 cents in forum credits, has not been downloaded by the kisasian.show.

A form user who indicated interest in the information wrote: “Thanks for your service; I cannot wait for the pandemonium.”

The data was retrieve by tech news website Bleeping Computer, which verified that several of the listed Twitter identities’ email addresses were accurate. It was also discovere that the data included duplicates.

It stated: “Obviously, the entire dataset has not been verified.” Since many people were not includ in the breach, the dataset is far from full. Even though many Twitter accounts are mentioned again, more than 100 million unique email addresses are still included, according to another researcher.

Already looking into

The news comes after Hudson Rock issued a warning last week about unsubstantiated claims made by a some one  that he had access to the emails and phone numbers of 400 million Twitter users.

Ryushi, the thief, asked that Twitter pay him $200,000 (£168,000) in exchange for providing the data and deleting it.

But according to Mr. Gal, the material that is now available online for free was suppl by another person, is smaller in size, and does not contain phone numbers.

As always with massive database intrusions, it’s very challenging to confirm that the stolen information is accurate. Three Twitter users have confirmed to me that their theft email addresses are authentic, and early indicators suggest that at least part of the sample data the criminal is sharing is real.

However, the theft development may be instructive as well. First, there were allegations of a major breach and attempts to blackmail Twitter into paying thousands of dollars.

A lot of data is now available for the pitiful price of 20 cents. The stolen information can end up being a useless compilation of earlier thefts and made-up information.

Although Twitter would undoubtedly be aware of the problem, the corporation has thus far declined to even address it (since Elon Musk took control of the firm).

Social media companies have consistently and quickly dismissed previous data scrapes of this nature, brushing them off as not major security risks for years.

However, as seen by Facebook’s recent $230 million punishment for a 2021 scraping incident, the debate seems to be one that digital corporations are losing.

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced that it will “investigate Twitter’s compliance with data protection legislation in regard to the security problem” after hearing about Ryushi’s accusation.

The DPC is already looking into a data breach that occurred in November and resulted in the online exposure of emails and phone numbers associated with more than five million accounts.

Security experts suspect that the most recent data breach may have been the result of a scraping attack made possible by a Twitter system fault.

This entailed manipulating an API (application programming interface), a piece of connected software for Twitter, into disclosing obscure information about accounts.

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