Social media large stays silent over alleged breach, which a safety researcher says will “lead to a lot of hacking, targeted phishing and doxxing.”
(Reuters Archive)
Hackers stole the e-mail
addresses of greater than 200 million Twitter customers and posted them
on an internet hacking discussion board, a safety researcher has mentioned.
The breach “will, sadly, result in numerous 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 most significant 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 had taken to research or
remediate the difficulty.
Screenshots of the hacker
discussion board, the place the information appeared on Wednesday, have circulated
on-line.
Troy Hunt, creator of breach-notification website Have I Been
Pwned, seen the leaked knowledge and mentioned on Twitter that it appeared “pretty much what it’s been described as.”
Size and scope of breach
There have been no clues to the id or location of the
hacker or hackers behind the breach.
It might have taken place as
early as 2021, which was earlier than Elon Musk took over possession of
the corporate final 12 months.
Claims concerning the dimension and scope of the breach initially
diversified, with early accounts in December saying 400 million electronic mail
addresses and telephone numbers have been stolen.
A significant breach at Twitter might curiosity regulators on each
sides of the Atlantic.
The Data Protection Commission in
Ireland, the place Twitter has its European headquarters, and the
US Federal Trade Commission have been monitoring the Elon
Musk-owned firm for compliance with European knowledge safety
guidelines and a US consent order respectively.
Source: Reuters
