Popular social media platform Twitter, new vulnerability affecting users discovered. The new breach, verified by the company, allows hackers to easily access account information. The new vulnerability allows hackers to find accounts associated with an email address or phone number.
Phone and emails associated with Twitter accounts surfaced
Last week by the social media giant a shared reportrevealed the new security leak exploited by hackers. security breach June of last year It was stated that it was caused by an update implemented in Breach, January of 2022 It was not noticed until the end of the month.
While Twitter has confirmed that user data has been breached, it did not mention how many users were affected. According to the claim of security researchers, hackers at least 5.4 million from user created a database and 300 thousand dollars sold in exchange.
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The latest violation on Twitter, email or phone numbers which account it is paired with revealed. This led to the disclosure of thousands of secret Twitter accounts, as well as information such as phone numbers.
“As a result of the vulnerability, if someone sends an email address or phone number to Twitter systems, Twitter systems will show which Twitter account the email address or phone number sent to the person is associated with,” the company said in a statement.
The social media giant said accounts whose data were exposed would be notified, but it’s unclear how many people were potentially affected. Company, two factor identity verify It suggests activating it and adding a second email address or phone number.
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