Threat actors exposed an unprecedented amount of information about Twitter users, including over 200 million unique records of usernames and email addresses. Worryingly, the database is available for anyone to download, posing severe security risks to millions of people.
According to Mantas Sasnauskas, the Head of Security Research at Cybernews, the publicly accessible dataset contains 63GB of data about Twitter users. Unlike the previous Twitter leak, announced in late December, the recently leaked dataset is entirely public, allowing anyone to download it.
Leaked data sample includes celebrities such as British comedian Ricky Gervais. The total volume of the dataset exceed 63GB. Image by Cybernews.
“The number of users in the leak is huge. Moreover, user emails are connected to their Twitter handles and names. Now available to any threat actor, this information will potentially lead to social engineering attacks and doxxing,” Sasnauskas said.
You can head over to the Cybernews personal data leak checker now. Our researchers are updating the tool with the publicly revealed Twitter scrape data so you could check if your data was included in the newly leaked dataset.
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