Twitter hacked, 200 million email addresses leaked: Researcher

There are not any clues to the identification or location of the hacker or hackers who might have breached Twitter as early as 2021.

The outside of San Francisco's Twitter building
A critical breach at Twitter might curiosity regulators on either side of the Atlantic [File: Jeff Chiu/AP Photo]

Hackers stole the e-mail addresses of greater than 200 million Twitter customers and posted them on a web-based hacking discussion board, a safety researcher has mentioned.

The breach “will sadly result in quite a lot of hacking, focused phishing and doxxing,” Alon Gal, co-founder of Israeli cybersecurity-monitoring agency Hudson Rock, wrote on LinkedIn on Wednesday. He known as it “one of the crucial important leaks I’ve seen.”

Twitter has not commented on the report, which Gal first posted about on social media on December 24, nor responded to inquiries concerning the breach since that date. It was not clear what motion, if any, Twitter has taken to research or remediate the problem.

The Reuters information company couldn't independently confirm that the information on the discussion board was genuine and got here from Twitter. Screenshots of the hacker discussion board, the place the information appeared on Wednesday, have circulated on-line.

Troy Hunt, creator of breach-notification web site Have I Been Pwned, seen the leaked information and mentioned on Twitter that it appeared “just about what it’s been described as”.

There have been no clues to the identification or location of the hacker or hackers behind the breach. It could have taken place as early as 2021, earlier than Elon Musk took possession of the corporate final 12 months.

Claims concerning the measurement and scope of the breach initially diversified with early accounts in December, which mentioned 400 million e-mail addresses and telephone numbers had been stolen.

A critical breach at Twitter might curiosity regulators on either side of the Atlantic. The Information Safety Fee in Eire, the place Twitter has its European headquarters, and the USA Federal Commerce Fee have been monitoring the Musk-owned firm for compliance with European information safety guidelines and a US consent order respectively.

Messages left with the 2 regulators weren't instantly returned on Thursday.

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