More than 200 million Twitter email addresses have been leaked.
More than 200 million email addresses of Twitter users have been hacked and posted on an online site, a security analyst has told the international news service agency.
The leaked posts include the names of Twitter users, account manipulations, followers numbers, and dates on which the accounts were created. This information has been reviewed by security researchers and shared with an international news service.
Troy Hunt, a security researcher, said an analysis of his data was "leaked on Thursday". "As many as 211,524,284 personal email addresses were found to have been leaked as such," he said.
In 2021, there were some reports that the data was collected through an error in Twitter settings. After the incident in Which 5.4 million Twitter accounts were affected last July, the International News Service reported a flaw that it had not been fixed in 2022.
Twitter did not immediately respond to these comments. After billionaire Elon Musk completed the acquisition of the company at the end of October, its communications team and half of Twitter's overall workforce were laid off. It has also emerged that due to the substantial staff cuts, Twitter is not equipped to respond to and correct security threats.
The leaked data could pose a problem for a wide range of users, the security researcher said, adding that it could pose a threat to the accounts of many celebrities around the world.
Account data can be valuable for hackers who can use the information as part of password reset efforts and account acquisition. The researchers said the risk is higher for people who use the same account credentials on Twitter as other digital services such as banks or cloud storage, as hackers can search for user accounts that open information collected from the leak elsewhere, the international news service said.
Security experts have warned that verified Twitter users caught in an apparent leak, or especially users with more followers, will be particularly valuable targets as a result of the leak. This is because those account holders, especially influential celebrities, can be intimidated and extorted money. Generally, the intentions of hackers who hack sites are to extort money through intimidation.
To protect themselves from phishing attempts, security researchers say that internet users need to use unique passwords for each online service and track them using a digital password manager. They must enable multi-factor authentication for each of their accounts and be cautious when opening unsolicited emails or attachments, the international news service said.
Reports of the leak may extend Twitter's already mentioned legal and regulatory risk.
A series of events on Twitter have led to the signing of two approval orders with the FTC since 2011 to improve its cybersecurity status. Violations of FTC orders could result in fines, business restrictions and sanctions targeting individual executives, the international news service said.
In any case, no matter how many internet security systems there are, it remains a challenge to control the capabilities of hackers who can hack the internet.
In today's modern world, in many parts of the world, the extortion system of internet hackers is flying high. Today, the world's great powers are struggling to figure out how to deal with the challenge of hackers.
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