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Re:Twitter Data Breach: Data of 400M Users Up for Sale on Da... by charcircuit on Saturday December 24, 2022 @02:01PM (#34119958)
>In July 2022, a hacker forum post offered to sell the personal information of over 5.4 million Twitter users for $30,000. The data included publicly available information like Twitter IDs, names, login names, locations, and verified status, as well as private information like email addresses and phone numbers.

>The hack occurred in December 2021 when a vulnerability in the Twitter API was exposed through the HackerOne bug bounty program. This vulnerability allowed anyone to enter a phone number or email address into the API and link it to a Twitter ID.

It was scraping and a bypass of the privacy setting that lets you prevent people finding you by your email or phone number.

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Re:Twitter Data Breach: Data of 400M Users Up for Sale on Da... by s5300 on Saturday December 24, 2022 @02:40PM (#34120357)
Is there a country with currency in which $30,000 is roughly “one million” of whatever their currency is?

That seems like an awfully low number for anybody with access to western salaries… almost a waste of a hack, like when the Musk twitter account hacker posted the stupidest of crypto scams.

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Re:Twitter Data Breach: Data of 400M Users Up for Sale on Da... by 0cVlTeIATBs on Saturday December 24, 2022 @11:01PM (#34124114)
It's roughly 1 million Thai Baht. It's also roughly 2 bitcoin.
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