5.4 million Twitter users’ data stolen in 2021 shared online for free

A hacker forum has made available for free more than 5.4 million Twitter user records that contained private data that was acquired through an API flaw rectified in January.

By utilising a Twitter API vulnerability, this data was gathered in December 2021. Private phone numbers and email addresses that are not intended for public use are mixed in with scraped public data.

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