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Twitter data leak exposes over 5.4 million accounts
engadget ^ | November 28, 2022 | S. Dent

Posted on 11/28/2022 9:45:09 AM PST by BenLurkin

The owner of hacking forum called Breached told BleepingComputer that it was responsible for exploiting the weakness (originally obtained from another hacker called "Devil") and dumping the user records. It said that it also obtained 1.4 million Twitter profiles for suspended accounts, obtained via another API, but only shared those privately among a few individuals.

On top of all that, security expert Chad Loder has revealed that tens of millions more Twitter records may have been collected using the same API. Once again, data collected may include private phone numbers along with public information. Loder posted a redacted sample on Mastodon, as he was banned on Twitter several days ago for unknown reasons. It could contain over 17 million records, BleepingComputer was told.

(Excerpt) Read more at engadget.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: bleepingcomputer; breached; chadloder; devil; elonmusk; engadget; mastodon; musk; sdent; truthsocial; twitter
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To: BenLurkin

Pinkos at it again.


21 posted on 11/28/2022 11:56:14 AM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: BenLurkin

The internet like cell phones nothing is safe.


22 posted on 11/28/2022 1:14:31 PM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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