200M Twitter users' emails exposed in major data breach traced to 2021 vulnerability

Over 200 million Twitter users face heightened risk of targeted phishing, account hacking, and doxxing attacks due to exposed personal information.

In the quiet architecture of digital identity, a vulnerability left unattended becomes an open door — and for more than 200 million Twitter users, that door was open far longer than anyone should have allowed. A flaw discovered in 2021 let attackers silently map email addresses to Twitter accounts in bulk; by the time Twitter patched it in January 2022 and disclosed it in August, the harvest had already been taken. The resulting database — names, usernames, email addresses, follower counts — is now circulating on hacking forums for as little as two dollars, a reminder that the cost of negligen

200M Twitter users' emails exposed in major data breach traced to 2021 vulnerability

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