Since the acquisition of Elon Musk, the waters on the social media platform Twitter have not calmed down. In the information revealed today, the account information of 400 million users, including many celebrities and politicians, was put up for sale. It even includes SpacesX, founded by Twitter owner Elon Musk, and former US president Donald Trump. So, how was this data captured? Let’s take a look at the details of the news together.
Data breach of 400 million Twitter accounts was on the agenda of social media!
A hacker seized the account information of 400 million Twitter users to put them up for sale. Alon Gal, co-founder of the Israeli cybercrime intelligence firm, thinks the data was compromised thanks to an API vulnerability.
Within the data of 400 million Twitter accounts seized; There is a lot of personal information such as e-mail addresses, passwords and phone numbers. In the target audience, there are many important profiles such as the official account of Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX, former US president Donald Trump, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin.
In the post where he put the data up for sale, the hacker said:
“Hello dear breached users, I am selling the data of over 400 million Twitter users due to a security vulnerability. This data is completely private and includes e-mail addresses, phone numbers and private usernames of celebrities, politicians, companies, regular users and many others”.
The hacker, who seized the account information, warned Elon Musk that he would not buy the stolen data or he would face GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) allegations and be fined $276 million. Facebook also faced GDPR due to data breaches of 533 million users before.
On the other hand, it is thought that there will be a great chaos if the data of 400 million Twitter accounts stolen are sold. Because there are big companies and high-profile names in the stolen accounts.
What do you, our readers, think about this issue? What do you think Elon Musk will do in the face of this situation? You can express your views in the Comments section.
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