Twitter in data-protection probe after '400 million' user details up for sale

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Politicians and celebrities are said to be affected but the scale of the data breach is unverified.

Cyber-crime intelligence company Hudson Rock says it was the first to raise the alarm about the data sale.

The data did not appear to have been copied from an earlier breach in which details were published from 5.4 million Twitter accounts, Mr Gal said. Also, Mr Gal noted: "The hacker aims to sell the database through an escrow service that is offered on a cyber-crime forum. Typically this is only done for real offerings."

Twitter fixed the weakness in the system in 2022. But the flaw is also believed to have been used in the earlier breach affecting more than five million accounts.As Twitter's European headquarters are based in Dublin, the commission is the lead authority supervising its compliance with EU data-protection rules.

 

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DrAlakbarov isnt that why elmo bought it?

elonmusk any truth to that article? Interested to know.

OMG

Direct Messages are *not* protected or encrypted. It amazes me how many vendors have asked to provide my personal information in them, of which I obviously don't. It happend twice today! Why does TwitterSupport allow third party apps to access and scrape from our DMs?

Elon Musk didn't take long before selling our data to Russia

Absolutely any story about Twitter is published by mainstream media, except anything to with recent revelations concerning the FBI and mass surveillance on the platform. But why?

PROFIT'S AT ANY COST, WORLDWIDE 👍

Any other twitter news recently bbc or are you just very selective with twitter stories?

The spy agencies revenge on having free speech and the uncovering of the criminality of spies like FBI.

More Bullshite propaganda! A HACKER CLAIMS to have evidence, and the BBC have a willingness to run a major headline with it! If that same HACKER claimed to have evidence that iron man was REAL… Do you think that would be an even BIGGER shitty headline?

Out going employee sold it on the dark web, for an easy 1 million bitcoin

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