Twitter (200M) — 211.5M accounts
Severity: Critical · Kind: Data breach
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From the source
In early 2023, over 200M records scraped from Twitter appeared on a popular hacking forum . The data was obtained sometime in 2021 by abusing an API that enabled email addresses to be resolved to Twitter profiles. The subsequent results were then composed into a corpus of data containing email addresses alongside public Twitter profile information including names, usernames and follower counts.
Breach facts
- Accounts affected
- 211,524,284
- Verified
- Yes
- Sensitive
- No
- Domain
- twitter.com
- Data exposed
- Email addressesNamesSocial media profilesUsernames
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