The new dataset combines an old leak from 2023, when threat actors exposed over 200 million twitter user emails, with new data that is primarily public The cybernews research team notes that almost all appended data fields are publicly available on x profiles. More than 200 million claimed leaked and stolen data records relating to x users have been posted on a popular hacker forum What you need to know. A massive data leak, potentially the largest social media breach ever, reportedly exposes 400gb of data from roughly 2.87 billion twitter (x) user accounts. A data leak involving a whopping 2.87 billion twitter (x) users has surfaced on the infamous breach forums
According to a post by a user named thinkingone, the leak is the result of a disgruntled x employee who allegedly stole the data during a period of mass layoffs. Data collection sale was started on 4th december 2022 containing more than 200 million twitter profiles The breached data was released as a 59 gb rar archive. In what may be the largest social media breach in history, a staggering 400gb of data containing information on 2.873 billion twitter (x) users was leaked in january 2025.
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