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 What you need to know. The new leak allegedly stems from a 400gb trove of user data said to have been exfiltrated by a disgruntled employee during mass layoffs at x following musk's 2022 acquisition of the company. 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. X was recently hit by a massive data leak featuring 2.8 billion twitter ids, potentially impacting over 200 million users. 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.
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