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Email addresses of over 200 million Twitter users have been hacked.
These addresses have been posted on online hacking forums.
It is feared that this data was stolen before Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition.
new Delhi. A security researcher has made a big disclosure regarding the privacy of Twitter users. The researcher has claimed that hackers have hacked the email addresses of more than 200 million (200 million) Twitter users by breaching the security security. Not only this, hackers have also posted it on an online hacking forum. After the arrival of this news, Twitter users are quite worried. At present, no information has been received about the hackers nor is there any information about when this data was hacked.
Regarding this, Alon Gal, co-founder of Israeli cyber security-monitoring firm Hudson Rock, wrote on one of his LinkedIn posts, ‘Unfortunately this incident will lead to a lot of hacking, target phishing and doxing. This is a huge leak. At present, Twitter has not made any comment in this matter.
Please tell that for the first time on December 24, Gail had posted a post on social media disclosing this. Gall said in his post that it is not clear what action Twitter has taken to investigate or resolve the issue.
Troy Hunt saw the screenshot
In addition, Troy Hunt, creator of the breach-notification site Have I Been Pwned, also saw screenshots of the leaked data. He said on Twitter that it looks as if the data of the users has been leaked, it is the same.
No clue of hackers found
It is noteworthy that till now the hackers who have stolen the data have neither been identified nor any clue will be found regarding their location. Meanwhile, it is also feared that this data may have been stolen before Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition.
