Massive twitter (x) profile data leak exposes details of 2.8 billion users Alleged insider leak surfaces with no official response from the company 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. Data collection sale was started on 4th december 2023 containing more than 200 million twitter profiles The breached data was released as a 59 gb rar archive
The vulnerable api was compromised by the scrapers using earlier data collections Twitter users should be aware of targeted phishing scam campaigns. Combining the data with previously leaked emails potentially allows for deeper profiling of x users X users affected by the previous twitter leak should stay alert for phishing attempts and consider updating their credentials if they haven’t done so since the 2023 breach. (updated 4/10/25) key takeaways massive data leak A hacker known as thinkingone released over 200 million x user records, including personal details like names, email addresses, screen names, and profile images
Information leaked by thinkingone not only included account creation dates, user ids and screen names, profile descriptions and urls, location and time zone settings, display names and follower count from this year and four years ago, tweet count and most recent tweet timestamps, total friends, lists, and favorites, most recent tweet sources, and status settings, but also data stolen from a. 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.
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