Twitter Data Breach Exposes Contact Details for 5.4M Accounts, on Sale for $30K

9to5Mac reports:A Twitter data breach has allowed an attacker to get access to the contact details of 5.4M accounts. Twitter has confirmed the security vulnerability which allowed the data to be extracted.The data - which ties Twitter handles to phone numbers and email addresses - has been offered for sale on a hacking forum, for $30,000...There is as yet no way to check whether your account is included in the Twitter data breach. More details from the Restore Privacy security news site:A verified Twitter vulnerability from January has been exploited by a threat actor to gain account data allegedly from 5.4 million users. While Twitter has since patched the vulnerability, the database allegedly acquired from this exploit is now being sold on a popular hacking forum, posted earlier today.... The seller on the hacking forum goes by the username "devil" and claims that the dataset includes "Celebrities, to Companies, randoms, OGs, etc."

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