information More than 5 million 400 thousand users Twitter is For sale in St Violation ForumsHacker Forum. The data was leaked because A A security flaw About the social network, which has been distributed since January 2022.

Accordingly Restoring privacyA specialized portal that disseminates information, a hacker that offers a database requests a Minimum payment of 30 thousand dollars for him.

According to the description of the offer, we are talking about the information of 5 million 485 thousand 636 users of the social network, including Meet famous people and companies. Similarly, it is described that between the data Phone numbers and email Used for login.

The owner of Breach Forums confirmed the authenticity of the leaked data and confirmed it Received due to failure In the social network security system. This vulnerability was noticed by a user of the platform @zhirinovskiy HackerOnewho shared the situation on Twitter at the beginning of the year.

The error revealed Authorization process For users who have devices Android. Specifically, in the account duplication checking process.

Through the report, which was also published in St Hackeron, WHO Found a warning: “Vulnerability allows anywherewithout any authentication, Get Twitter ID (which is pretty much the same as getting the account username) any user By sending the phone number/email even if the user has prohibited this action in the privacy settings”.

Likewise, the report warns that among the consequences of this type of leak could be Use of information for advertising purposes but also tagging celebrities in various malicious activities.

A few days after the bug was made public, a member of the Twitter team assured that they would conduct an investigation and asked the author of the report to keep the details confidential until the matter is fully investigated.

However, more than six months after the flaw was discovered, millions of users’ information was compromised. According to restore privacy, Twitter confirmed they are investigating of the leak, but released more details.

Tik Tok user data leaked

It is worth noting that this is not the only case where social media user data has been leaked recently. Mid-June Tik Tok meeting audio leakedaccording to which part of the staff Asian company Access to personal data of users United States from China.

The news sparked controversy because, as Tik Tok pointed out, Americans’ data was stored in their country of origin, not in Asia. The company has confirmed this before after the controversy Some information was stored in Singapore.

But Tik Tok also clarified that the data is currently stored in the United States and that They are working to remove them from the databases Old information, as well as backup copies are stored in the Americas.

However, the conversation on this topic continued as a portal buzzfeed exposed that in the new Data protection policy Maybe some were considered, like phone numbers and birthdays, but not others, like public profiles and posted videos.

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