The data of 400 million Twitter users has been put up for sale on the dark web. To prove that the data is genuine, the hacker has posted a sample of data on one of the hacker forums.
The hacker wrote: “I am selling data of +400 million unique Twitter users that was scrapped via a vulnerability, this data is completely private. Twitter or Elon Musk, if you are reading this post, you are already at risk of GDPR fines for the data leak of over 54 million users. Now fines for data leak of 400 million users. Your best option to avoid paying $2.76 million in CDPR breach fines like Facebook did (due to 533 million users being scrapped) is to buy this data exclusively.”
The sample data included information like email, name, username, follower count, creation date, and in some cases, the phone number of the users. The sample data provided by the hacker includes data from some really high-profile user accounts.
Some of the high-profile users include Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, SpaceX, CBS Media, Donald Trump Jr., Doja Cat, Charlie Puth, Sundar Pichai, Salman Khan, NASA’s JWST account, NBA, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India, Shawn Mendes, social media of WHO.
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