Twitter claims there’s ‘no evidence’ 200 million leaked usernames and email addresses came from an exploit of its systems
by James Vincent from The Verge - All Posts on (#67HW1)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A database posted online claims to reveal more than 200 million associated Twitter usernames and email addresses. Now, several days after the initial reports, Twitter says the dataset could not be correlated with the previously reported incident or any data originating from an exploitation of Twitter systems."
According to reports from security researchers and media outlets including BleepingComputer, the credentials in the leak were compiled from a number of earlier Twitter breaches dating back to 2021. According to Twitter, however, there is no evidence that data recently being sold was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability of Twitter systems."
Its statement addresses the information in the datasets only by saying, The data is...