More than 200 million claimed leaked and stolen data records relating to x users have been posted on a popular hacker forum A colossal 400gb trove containing data from 2.873 billion x (formerly twitter) users has surfaced on hacker forums. What you need to know.
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 A massive data leak of 2.87 billion x/twitter profiles, more than four times the site's current active monthly user estimate and likely including most going back to the creation of twitter, may have been the work of a disgruntled former employee laid off during musk's takeover of the company. The cybernews research team notes that almost all appended data fields are publicly available on x profiles.
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. 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.
