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Scraped emails and profiles of over 200 million Twitter users posted onlineScraping exposed emails and names.Scraping212M accountsTechUSUnverifiedJan 5, 2023 API flaw let attacker link emails and phone numbers to Twitter accountsHacking exposed emails, location data, names and phone numbers.Hacking6.7M accountsMediaUSAug 5, 2022 Protected tweets bug notified late; Irish DPC fine of EUR 450,000Exposed data exposed messages.Exposed dataTechUSDec 15, 2020 Phone spear phishing gives attackers internal tools, 130 accounts targetedPhishing exposed messages.Phishing130 affectedTechUSJul 15, 2020 Hackers gained admin control of Twitter twice in 2009; FTC security orderHacking exposed credentials and tokens and messages.HackingTechUSJun 24, 2010

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Twitter, 2022-08-05https://privacy.twitter.com/en/blog/2022/an-issue-affecting-some-anonymous-accounts

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Twitter, 2022-08-05Twitter 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.

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Twitter, 2022-08-05API flaw let attacker link emails and phone numbers to Twitter accounts

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Twitter, 2023-01-05In 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

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Twitter, 2023-01-05Scraped emails and profiles of over 200 million Twitter users posted online

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