Twitter Hacked, More Than 200 Million User Email Addresses Leaked: Report

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Hackers stole the e-mail addresses of greater than 200 million Twitter customers and posted them on a web based hacking discussion board, a safety researcher stated Wednesday.

The breach “will sadly result in quite a lot of hacking, focused phishing and doxxing,” Alon Gal, co-founder of Israeli cybersecurity-monitoring agency Hudson Rock, wrote on LinkedIn. He known as it “one of the vital important leaks I’ve seen.”

Twitter has not commented on the report, which Gal first posted about on social media on Dec. 24, nor responded to inquiries in regards to the breach since that date. It was not clear what motion, if any, Twitter has taken to analyze or remediate the problem.

Reuters couldn’t independently confirm the info on the discussion board was genuine and got here from Twitter. Screenshots of the hacker discussion board, the place the info appeared on Wednesday, have circulated on-line.

Troy Hunt, creator of breach-notification website Have I Been Pwned, seen the leaked information and stated on Twitter that it appeared “just about what it has been described as.”

There have been no clues to the identification or location of the hacker or hackers behind the breach. It might have taken place as early as 2021, which was earlier than Elon Musk took over possession of the corporate final 12 months.

Claims in regards to the dimension and scope of the breach initially diversified with early accounts in December saying 400 million electronic mail addresses and telephone numbers have been stolen.

A significant breach at Twitter might curiosity regulators on either side of the Atlantic. The Information Safety Fee in Eire, the place Twitter has its European headquarters, and the U.S. Federal Commerce Fee have been monitoring the Elon Musk-owned firm for compliance with European information safety guidelines and a U.S. consent order respectively.

Messages left with the 2 regulators weren’t instantly returned on Thursday.

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