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Title: Twitter belatedly confirms data breach which exposed contact details for 5.4M accounts [U] Post by: HCK on August 12, 2022, 04:05:05 pm Twitter belatedly confirms data breach which exposed contact details for 5.4M accounts
<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2022/07/twitter-hacked.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600)</div> <p>Update: Twitter has rather belatedly confirmed that a hacker was able to expose the account details, though the company has not commented on the 5.4M number. See statement at the end of the piece.</p> <p>A <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/twitter/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Twitter[/url] data breach has allowed an attacker to get access to the contact details of 5.4M accounts. Twitter has confirmed the <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/security/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">security[/url] vulnerability which allowed the data to be extracted.</p> <p>The data – which ties Twitter handles to phone numbers and email addresses – has been offered for sale on a hacking forum, for $30,000 … </p> <p> <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2022/08/08/twitter-data-breach/#more-822264" class="more-link">more…[/url]</p> <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://9to5mac.com/2022/08/08/twitter-data-breach/">Twitter belatedly confirms data breach which exposed contact details for 5.4M accounts [/url] appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://9to5mac.com">9to5Mac[/url].</p> Source: Twitter belatedly confirms data breach which exposed contact details for 5.4M accounts (https://9to5mac.com/2022/08/08/twitter-data-breach/) |