What you need to know. A data breach involving a whopping 2.87 billion twitter (x) users has surfaced on the infamous hacker and cyber crime platform breach forums. In march 2025, reports surfaced regarding a large dataset containing x (formerly twitter) user information that had become available on various online hacking forums and dark web marketplaces. After reports at the end of 2022 that hackers were selling data stolen from 400 million twitter users, researchers now say that a widely circulated trove of email addresses linked to about 200. Hackers on the illicit marketplace breach forums have disseminated a massive dataset allegedly containing 2.9 billion twitter (x) user records Although most of the data in a “leak” is public, cybercriminals can still find many uses for it.
Since july 22nd, 2022, threat actors and data breach collectors have been selling and circulating large data sets of scraped twitter user profiles containing both private (phone numbers and email. In what may be the largest social media breach in history, a staggering 400gb of data containing information on 2.873 billion twitter (x) users was leaked in january 2025.
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