5 breaches218M affected in allTechtwitter.com
| Breach | Affected | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scraped emails and profiles of over 200 million Twitter users posted onlineJan 5, 20233 years agoScrapingUnverified | Jan 5, 20233 years ago | Scraping | Tech | Unverified | 212Macct |
| API flaw let attacker link emails and phone numbers to Twitter accountsAug 5, 20224 years agoHacking | Aug 5, 20224 years ago | Hacking | Media | Confirmed | 6.7Macct |
| Protected tweets bug notified late; Irish DPC fine of EUR 450,000Dec 15, 20205 years agoExposed data | Dec 15, 20205 years ago | Exposed data | Tech | Settled | Unknown |
| Phone spear phishing gives attackers internal tools, 130 accounts targetedJul 15, 20206 years agoPhishing | Jul 15, 20206 years ago | Phishing | Tech | Confirmed | 130 |
| Hackers gained admin control of Twitter twice in 2009; FTC security orderJun 24, 201016 years agoHacking | Jun 24, 201016 years ago | Hacking | Tech | Settled | Unknown |
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- 2026-09-25 · Twitter, 2010-06-24 · added
- 2026-09-25 · Twitter, 2020-12-15 · added
- 2026-09-25 · Twitter, 2020-07-15 · added
- 2026-09-25 · Twitter, 2022-08-05 · source_type: company
- 2026-09-25 · Twitter, 2022-08-05 · source_url: https://privacy.twitter.com/en/blog/2022/an-issue-affecting-some-anonymous-accounts
- 2026-09-25 · Twitter, 2022-08-05 · status: confirmed
- 2026-09-25 · Twitter, 2022-08-05 · verified_by: research
- 2026-09-25 · Twitter, 2022-08-05 · verified: 1
- 2026-09-25 · Twitter, 2022-08-05 · country: US
- 2026-09-25 · Twitter, 2022-08-05 · sector: media
- 2026-09-25 · Twitter, 2022-08-05 · attack: hacking
- 2026-09-25 · Twitter, 2022-08-05 · disclosed: 2022-08-05
- 2026-09-25 · Twitter, 2022-08-05 · discovered: 2022-01
- 2026-09-25 · Twitter, 2022-08-05 · summary: Twitter confirmed that a bug reported in January 2022 let anyone submitting an email or phone number learn the linked account, and that a bad actor exploited it before the fix and offered the data for sale. The seller claimed profiles of 5.
- 2026-09-25 · Twitter, 2022-08-05 · title: API flaw let attacker link emails and phone numbers to Twitter accounts
- 2026-09-25 · Twitter, 2023-01-05 · source_type: press
- 2026-09-25 · Twitter, 2023-01-05 · country: US
- 2026-09-25 · Twitter, 2023-01-05 · summary: In early January 2023 a dataset of more than 200 million Twitter records was posted on a hacking forum. The data, compiled in 2021 by abusing an API flaw that resolved email addresses to profiles, paired emails with names, usernames and fol
- 2026-09-25 · Twitter, 2023-01-05 · title: Scraped emails and profiles of over 200 million Twitter users posted online
- 2026-09-25 · Twitter, 2023-01-05 · added
- 2026-09-25 · Twitter, 2022-08-05 · added
- 2026-09-25 · Twitter · added