Hackers reportedly leak email addresses of over 200 million Twitter users
Hackers stole the email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users and uploaded them on an online hacking forum, a security researcher said.
Alon Gal, co-founder of Israeli cybersecurity-monitoring firm Hudson Rock, called it the biggest cyber theft of all time, saying that hacking will increase exponentially after email addresses have been stolen on such a large scale.
Twitter has not yet issued a statement on the report of such a large number of email addresses being stolen from its platform, nor has it responded to a request for comment, while it is unclear what action it will take.
The data breach of 200 million email addresses could not be independently verified, but screenshots released by a hacker forum are circulating on social media.
After looking at the data, Troy Hunt, creator of breach-notification site Have I Been Pwned, confirmed the breach claims and said that “it seemed pretty much what it’s been described as.”
The hackers who stole these email addresses have not yet been identified and researchers believed that the data breach was done in 2021, before Elon Musk acquired ownership of the company.
