Twitter patched the vulnerability in January 2022, but not before threat actors widely exploited it.
A Twitter API vulnerability patched in January 2022 was widely exploited by threat actors before the fix, with one having shared the private information of 7 million users on a hacker forum., a security researcher has disclosed another, possibly more significant, data dump of millions of Twitter records containing non-public information, including phone numbers and email addresses.
The flaw allowed malicious actors to enter phone numbers and email addresses into the API to get associated Twitter IDs, which they could then use to scrape further information. Pompompurin, the owner of the Breached hacking forum, told BleepingComputer that the group was responsible for exploiting the flaw and creating the massive dump of Twitter user records.
While the data includes similar information, the breach is far more widespread, affecting all Twitter accounts that have the “Let others find you by your phone” discoverability feature enabled.
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