Following the discovery of a flaw in Twitter’s security, the personal information of 235 million of the platform’s users was made available to the general public.
After thieves broke into the Twitter service and exposed it to other hackers, the service’s 235 million users’ email addresses and passwords were made available to hackers. This allowed hackers to access the accounts of 235 million Twitter users. The criminals were able to access the service after they had made it vulnerable to further cyber attackers.
This database is going to be utilized by hackers, political hacktivists, and of course, governments, which will further erode our privacy, according to Alon Gal, co-founder of the Israeli security company Hudson Rock, who found the advertisement on a large underground marketplace.
Alon Gal discovered the advertisement on the website of a criminal organization known as Hudson Rock. Alon Gal is of the opinion that the information included in this database can be exploited in order to target certain persons. As a direct result of this, he anticipated that there would be “a lot more hacking, targeted phishing, and doxxing.”
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It is speculated that the records were compiled sometime in the second half of 2021 by exploiting a flaw that was present in Twitter’s system. This would place the compilation of the records in the latter half of 2021.
This information was obtained from a report that was written and distributed by the Washington Post. It was possible for anyone who had access to an email address or phone number and had shared either of those pieces of information with Twitter to discover any Twitter account that had shared either of those pieces of information.
This flaw made it possible for anyone to discover any Twitter account that had shared either of those pieces of information. In other words, the vulnerability allowed anyone to discover any Twitter account that had shared either of those pieces of information. This was made possible for anyone who wanted to do so.
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Since Mr Gal’s first post about the study on social media on December 24, Twitter hasn’t said anything about the claims or answered questions about the breach. This is the case even though Twitter has had over a week to do so.
Fraudsters can use email addresses to try to change passwords and take over accounts. This is a big problem, especially for accounts that don’t have two-factor verification.
Email addresses present a significant risk because of this. This is especially important to keep in mind for any accounts that do not have two-step verification enabled.
Attacks on the Twitter accounts of notable people, such as Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kanye West, President Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, Wiz Khalifa, Warren Buffett, and Apple, caused the platform to catch fire in the year 2020.
Other notable targets included Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, and Apple. Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, and Apple were among the other prominent individuals targeted.
Several important people, like Apple, Joe Biden, and Michael Bloomberg, were successfully targeted by the campaign. Apple is one of the many well-known organizations that had its account information taken in a recent data breach. Because the malicious hacker had access to the organization’s own resources and computer systems, he was able to carry out the attack with great success. This was one of the reasons why the attack was so successful.
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