Hello folks, welcome to more information on the supposed recent Twitter breach that has been on the radar in this industry.
This time, the article comes from Cyberscoop and is titled Twitter breach exposes anonymous accounts to nation state hackers which was written several days ago.
According to the first paragraph, it states:
Twitter confirmed Friday that a bad actor used a vulnerability to match private information with potentially anonymous Twitter accounts, posing risks to users privacy.
They said the impact was global, but went on to say that no passwords were compromised.
It stems from a January breach and fix which recently came to life, and it supposedly affects 5.4 million of us, and that could mean multiple accounts correct?
Twitter said it would be notifying account holders who were affected by this breach.
The article goes on to talk about how they were notified of the sale of such data and that is a link within the article.
They are still unable to confirm the full impact of this breach.
“We are publishing this update because we aren’t able to confirm every account that was potentially impacted, and are particularly mindful of people with pseudonymous accounts who can be targeted by state or other actors,” Twitter said in a blog.
If you feel you’re in danger, Twitter urges you not to publish phone numbers or email addresses tied to you. Read the full article for more.
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