A security researcher says the email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users have been stolen and posted on an online forum.
abc.net.au/news/twitter-hack-email-addresses-leaked-report/101831488Hackers have stolen the email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users and posted them on an online forum, according to a security researcher.Twitter has not commented on the report, which was posted on social mediaThe co-founder of Israeli cybersecurity-monitoring firm Hudson Rock, Alon Gal, said the breach would "unfortunately lead to a lot of hacking, targeted phishing and doxxing".
Troy Hunt, creator of breach-notification site Have I Been Pwned, said on Twitter after viewing the leaked data that it seemed "pretty much what it's been described as".It may have taken place as early as 2021, before Elon Musk took over ownership of the company.
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