X hit with massive data breach with 200 million records leaked, including emails 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. Tech expert kurt “cyberguy knutsson offers seven tips to help protect yourself.
More than 200 million claimed leaked and stolen data records relating to x users have been posted on a popular hacker forum X was recently hit by a massive data leak featuring 2.8 billion twitter ids, potentially impacting over 200 million users. What you need to know.
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 period of mass layoffs. 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 The cybernews research team notes that almost all appended data fields are publicly available on x profiles.
