Three separate leaks could have compromised the data of nearly 25 million Twitter accounts.
A database containing leaked private data of 5.4 million Twitter users, obtained in December 2021, is being distributed free of charge on hacker forums.
WHAT WAS THERE? OR Bleeping Computerwebsite specializing in digital security, confirmed that the database is legitimate.
It was obtained by hackers who exploited a flawed Twitter API identified by the company’s bounty program and patched in January 2022.
The database contains a lot of public information for interested profiles, but also some private information, such as phone number and email address.
As of August, this database was selling for US$30k (~R$162k). Now anyone can download it.
WHAT ELSE? There are still two more Twitter user databases around.
One, obtained from another flawed API, contains private data of 1.4 million suspended Twitter accounts.
More concerning though is a third party, also obtained from the flawed API fixed in January 2022 and made public by security researcher Chad Loder: it was suspended by Twitter after revealing the existence of the database and now is on Mastodon🇧🇷
The new bank is suspected to contain data from up to 17 million accounts, categorized by country of origin and (phone) area code.
OR Bleeping Computer he championed the latter with 1.3 million French accounts. They are distinct from those contained in the first database of 5.4 million accounts.
BECAUSE MATTER? Leaks like this allow for targeted and convincing “phishing scam” attacks, where the scammer impersonates someone legitimate (in this case, Twitter) to gain account access or some other advantage.
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