More than 200 million claimed leaked and stolen data records relating to x users have been posted on a popular hacker forum What you need to know. 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 A threat actor hiding under the moniker thinkingone. Researchers at cyber press discovered a 9.4gb leaked twitter user data containing nearly 200 million user data records
This leak, sourced from a twitter database or scrape, represents one of the largest exposures of user data in recent times The leaked data includes email addresses, names, and twitter account details, leaving users vulnerable to phishing attacks, identity theft, and social. Hackread reports that x, formerly known as twitter, had over 2.8 billion individuals' profile data exposed on breach forums by the threat actor thinkingone, who claimed the information to have been stolen by a former employee amid widespread layoffs at the u.s
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