Meta Fined For 2021 Data Breach As Millions Of Twitter Users’ Data Also Leaked
Meta Fined For 2021 Data Breach As Millions Of Twitter Users’ Data Also Leaked
An estimated 5.4 million Twitter users may have suffered a data breach that exposed non-public user information. … [+]information from Europe and the United States
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An estimated 5.4 million Twitter users were affected by an enormous data breach. The accounts contained non-public US and European information. According to reports, the data was stolen via an API vulnerability. It was then shared on a hacker forum. Although the vulnerability is reported to have been resolved, security experts also disclosed another large, more serious data dump of millions on Twitter.
Bleeping computer reports that data obtained from the internet includes scraped public information, private numbers and emails addresses not intended to be publicly. A bug was used by multiple threat actors to steal private information.