Twitter data breach: Hacker put 200M users' private information up for grabs

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Twitter data breach: Hacker put 200M users' private information up for grabs
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The hackers behind December 2022 Twitter breach have now posted the private information of nearly 200 million users on a hacker forum for anyone to download for free, as promised earlier.

that the leaked data set on the hacker forum is the same from December. The 200 million number, in this case, resulted from the removal of duplicates. The released data set doesn’t contain phone numbers. The researchers warned that these data sets could be used to initiate social engineering or"doxing" campaigns.

The data set was originally 63GB, but after removing duplicates and compressing the files, the size of the latest data set was reduced to 4GB and free to download. The hacker also noted that the analysis of original file dates and account creation dates “strongly suggest" that this was collected from early November 2021 through December 14, 2021.Many users on Twitter demanded that the social media platform looks into security as these hacks put activists and whistleblowers in danger.

I went to change my email address and Twitter isn't working. This hack puts activists and whistleblowers in danger.

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