Former Australian prime minister Scott Morrison among politicians and celebrities whose details were in sample of allegedly hacked data published online
identified in January had allowed people to discover what, if any Twitter account was associated with a phone number or email address. By exploiting the vulnerability, people could patch together a data record of both public and private information – such as the private phone numbers and emails of high profile users.
The bug was caused by an update to Twitter’s code in June 2021. It was patched once identified, but in July 2022, Twitter learned “a bad actor had taken advantage of the issue before it was addressed”. That came after someone attempted to sell the email addresses and phone numbers of 5.4 million users. Twitter said it would alert users confirmed to have been affected by the breach.The private database contains devastating amounts of information including emails and phone numbers of high profile users such as AOC, Kevin O'Leary, Vitalik Buterin & more .
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