Security researchers have found more than 200 million Twitter accounts were hacked and posted on an online hacking forum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The data leak could reveal the true identities of anonymous Twitter users, making it easier for criminals to take over Twitter accounts<\/a><\/strong> or even victims’ accounts on other sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The data dump also contains Twitter users’ names, account handles, follower counts, and the dates their accounts were created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n READ MORE: NEW INVESTOR EVIDENCE SUGGESTS TWITTER LOST HALF ITS VALUE AFTER ELON MUSK TAKEOVER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Rafi Mendelsohn, a spokesman for Cyabra, a social media<\/a><\/strong> analysis firm said: \u201cBad actors have won the jackpot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPreviously private data such as emails, handles, and creation date can be leveraged to build smarter and more sophisticated hacking, phishing and disinformation campaigns.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some reports suggested the data was gathered in 2021 as a result of a fault in Twitter’s systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Need Career Advice?<\/strong> Get employment skills advice at all levels of your career<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The firm fixed the bug in 2022 after a subsequent incident in July involving 5.4 million Twitter accounts notified the firm of the vulnerability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Troy Hunt, a security researcher<\/a><\/strong>, said his examination of the data \u201cfound 211,524,284 unique email addresses\u201d that had been leaked.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Twitter didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: CNN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on YouTube<\/strong><\/a>, Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a>, and Facebook<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Security researchers found Twitter accounts of more than 200 users were hacked and posted on an online hacking forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2456,1065],"tags":[329],"class_list":["post-34415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-twitter-news","category-us-business-news","tag-twitter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}