Data Of More Than 200 Million Twitter Users Is Leaked
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Summary Of The Attack
- Data collection sale was started on 4th December 2023 containing more than 200 million Twitter profiles.
- The breached data was released as a 59 GB RAR archive.
- The vulnerable API was compromised by the scrapers using earlier data collections.
- Twitter users should be aware of targeted phishing scam campaigns.
What Happened?
On 4th December 2023, on the hacking forum, a threat actor sold a data collection containing more than 200 million Twitter profiles for hacker forums eight credits, which were worth almost $2.
The first 5.4 million user data collection was offered for sale in July for $30,000 and eventually on 27th November 2022 made available for free. In November, a second data file purportedly comprising information on 17 million individuals was also making its way around privately.
On numerous online hacker forums and marketp