Twitter hackers have stolen more than 200 million emails, which may lead to a large number of "targeted phishing and Doxxing", security researchers said
According to a security researcher, Twitter suffered from data leakage, and hackers stole more than 200 million e-mail addresses and posted them on online hacker forums.
What happened: Alon Gal, co-founder and chief technology officer of Hudson Rock, an Israeli network security monitoring company, shared the details of hacker attacks in a LinkedIn post, which was first noticed by Reuters.
Gal said that the leaked e-mail database was "widely disseminated", including "the unique records of 235 million Twitter users and their e-mail addresses. Unfortunately, this will lead to a large number of hacker attacks, targeted phishing and doxing."
Gal described it as one of the "most important" leaks he had ever seen, adding that the leak would be used for Twitter accounts with Ethereum cryptocurrency
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The symbol in the name.
He said that other adverse effects included hacking into high-profile and political accounts, as well as attacking accounts with good user names.
Not recently? According to Reuters, the earliest hacker attack may occur in 2021, before Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, acquired Twitter.
The size of the leak is still unclear. Early accounts will be leaked with 400 million email addresses.
In July 2020, a Twitter internal tool for the infamous Bitcoin
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The scam led to the intrusion of 100 well-known users, including Musk, President Joe Biden and Bill Gates.