There has been a striking development about Twitter, the world’s most popular microblogging platform. Allegedly, one or a group of hackers has put up for sale a database containing data of 400 million users. Considering that Twitter has 450 million monthly active users, we can say that these numbers are terrible.
According to Hudson Rock, who conducts research on cyber attacks, the database in question contains information belonging to some of the most important names of Twitter and even the world. In fact, data belonging to Donald Trump Jr., famous entrepreneur Kevin O’Leary and Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin and US government offices were also in the database in question.
Data captured at the beginning of 2022!
Hackers trying to sell the data of 400 million Twitter users are using striking expressions in the forum they use. So much so that they say they obtained this data at the beginning of 2022, by exploiting a vulnerability in Twitter. It is also stated that this data was contacted by Twitter owner Elon Musk to purchase it.
Hacker or hackers want $276 million from Elon Musk
*A sales advertisement for the database containing data of 400 million Twitter users.
There is a special offer for Elon Musk for data for sale on a hacker forum. Hackers or hackers want exactly 276 million dollars from Elon Musk to ensure that the data in question does not fall into the hands of anyone else.
Information found to be correct
A company called DeFiYield conducted a research on the leaked information. The research revealed a striking fact. So much so that the data in question was correct. In this case, it should be noted that not only Twitter users, but all internet users are at risk. Because the leaked data includes phone numbers and e-mail addresses. The database falls into the hands of malicious persons; This means that there may be an increase in cyber attacks such as phishing, crypto scams, SIM card cloning.
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