There have been new developments about the giant data breach on Twitter in the past months. It turned out that more than one person was behind the incident in which information such as phone numbers and e-mail addresses of 5.1 million users was stolen.
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. The incident first occurred in January.more than 5 million It was stated that the Twitter user’s data 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
According to 9to5Mac, personal data is not collected by a single person. multiple malicious actors It turned out to be accessed by 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, the information can be found in Twitter’s settings and not very well known ‘Discoverability’ section was also recorded. 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.
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Hackers can download around 500,000 per hour and the data is stored on the Dark Web. $5,000 It is also among the information that it is sold. 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.