Information security researchers write that according to the latter, hackers have the data of 400 million users. As proof, the seller posted a “sampler” with information on 1,000 accounts, and featured Donald Trump Jr., Vitaly Buterin, journalist Brian Krebs, etc. It revealed the data of famous personalities such as

what is known

The author of the post claims that, under the pseudonym Ryushi, the data was stolen using some kind of vulnerability and that the dump contained the email addresses and phone numbers of celebrities, politicians, companies, ordinary users, and many private usernames.

sales person Offers Twitter and Elon Musk to buy back data to avoid lawsuits and large fines for GDPR violations.

Twitter or Elon Musk, if you’re reading this, you already face a GDPR penalty for 5.4 million leaks, so imagine the penalty for leaking 400 million users’ data. The best way to avoid paying $276 million fines for GDPR violations is to purchase this information privately (as happened to Facebook when the data of 533 million users was leaked).
– writes offensive.

Information security experts at Hudson Rock reviewed these statements and provided test files. According to them, The archive looks genuine and “contains a large amount of information, including email addresses and phone numbers of known users..

Yes, in the screenshot posted by Hudson Rock you can see a table with the following accounts:

• spaceX,
• cbs channel,
• Donald Trump Jr.
• Neil Degrasse Tyson
• Black Delevingne,
• Steve Wozniak
• Government bodies of USA and France etc.

Email addresses and phone numbers in the picture are blocked.

Part of archive combined with Twitter users’ data / Photograph: Hudson Rock

Analysts believe the leak is not related to the same bug in the API that attackers previously used to steal data from 5.4 million Twitter users. However, they cannot yet say exactly how this data was collected.