A hacker claims to have collected over 400 million unique users' data with a now-fixed API vulnerability on Twitter in 2021.
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, the threat actor named “Ryushi” on the Breached hacking forum is asking $200,00 for an exclusive saleThey have already warned Elon Musk’s Twitter as “they should purchase the data before it leads to a large fine under Europe’s GDPR privacy law.” In the post, the hacker explains how this data can be used for phishing attacks and other scams. Ryushi says they were able to collect public and private Twitter data, such as users’ email addresses, names, usernames, follower count, creation date, and phone numbers. While most of this data can be found online, phone numbers and email addresses are private information.
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