Twitter, which has been around everyone with the purchase of Elon Musk, has been on the agenda with a giant data breach in the past months. In the incident, which first appeared in January, it was stated that the data of more than 5 million Twitter users was stolen and sold for thousands of dollars. This data also included things like phone numbers and email addresses.
Now, the developments have revealed that the data breach is much worse than expected. When the incident was first revealed, it was thought that a single hacker carried out this attack. Now it has been seen that this is not actually the case.
It turned out that multiple malicious people accessed the data and sold it for thousands of dollars on the Dark Web
It turned out that personal data was accessed by multiple malicious actors, not by a single person, 9to5Mac reported. In the news, it was stated that a dataset obtained showed that the same information was contained in other formats. A security researcher also assessed this as ‘definitely a different threat factor’, pointing to multiple attackers.
Your data; It was reported that it includes Twitter users in the United Kingdom, almost all European Union countries and some parts of the USA. In addition, it was noted that the information was taken from the ‘Discoverability’ section in Twitter’s settings, which is not very well known. The source added that the information of any user using this feature is included in the dataset. This feature allows people with your phone number and email address to find you on Twitter.
It is also among the information that hackers can download about 500,000 per hour and the data is sold for $ 5,000 on the Dark Web. Apart from these, it was stated that another cyber security expert tweeted about the subject yesterday. The account of this expert, who stated that data such as e-mail and phone were collected by multiple malicious actors working independently during 2021, was suspended after a short time.
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