A twitter problems are piling up. This data about 235 million users social networkThis week, it was revealed on a popular forum, including e-mails. hackersThey’re auctioned off for about two dollars.
It looks like the leak may have been spotted by Alan Gal, co-founder of Israeli security firm Hudson Rock. “The database contains 235,000,000 unique records of Twitter users and email addresses. email and unfortunately it will lead to many attacks, phishing targeting and doxing,” he stated in a LinkedIn post.
Last July, the company now run by magnate Elon Musk suffered a crisis. cyber attack an exploding security breach On the platform to steal and leak the data of 5.4 million users. Twitter later announced that it had identified the vulnerability in January 2022 and quickly patched it, indicating that no sensitive personal information had been compromised. It also assured that it would notify owners of affected accounts.
“Serious Threat”
Since last summer, hackers have been selling and circulating these packages: stolen data Users will have both email addresses and phone numbers.
platform cyber security HackerOne warned that this is a “serious threat” because filtering this data and selling it on web portals means that any actor can obtain this data to launch more sensitive cyberattacks against Twitter users who are then exposed. Computer attacks ranging from identity theft to sending messages to them malicious links to sneak viruses known as ‘phishing’ into operating systems.
US media suggest that these datasets were created in 2021 by exploiting security vulnerabilities. Safety From the Twitter API. The attackers tracked public user data and combined it with stolen private data to create user profiles.
In December, the Irish Data Protection Commission, the body regulator tasked with overseeing Twitter’s activities European Unionsent a letter asking the company to inform millions of users about this massive data theft.