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https://cybernews.com/news/twitter-d...s-up-for-sale/

Twitter data leaked - 400 million user details up for sale

Hours before Christmas, threat actors posted an ad on a well-known hacker forum, claiming they were selling the data of over 400 million Twitter users.

The dataset includes Twitter handles, usernames, email addresses, and phone numbers. People behind the leak claim they are willing to sell the data for $50,000.

According to the post on the hacker forum, the data scrape was possible due to an unnamed ‘vulnerability.’ Data leaks of such scale are often possible due to system flaws that allow harvesting information at scale, a practice known as ‘scraping.’