Data of 400 Million Twitter Users is Up for Sale

There has been a striking development about Twitter, the world’s most popular microblogging platform. Allegedly, one or a group of hackers, Data of 400 million users released a database containing Considering that Twitter has 450 million monthly active users, these figures are terrible We can say it is.

Conducting research on cyber attacks Hudson RockAccording to , the database in question contains information belonging to some of the most important names of Twitter and even the world. Even Donald Trump Jr., famous entrepreneur Kevin O’Leary and Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin and US government agencies were also in the database.

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 this data at the beginning of 2022They say they got it 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. The hacker or hackers asked Elon Musk exactly to ensure that the data in question does not fall into the hands of anyone else. $276 million they want.

Information found to be correct

A company called DeFiYield conducted a research on the leaked information. The research revealed a striking fact. So it’s about the data 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; such as phishing, crypto scams, SIM card cloning in cyber attacks means an increase.