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Re:Twitter (X) Hit by Data Leak of 2.8B Users – Allegedly an... by robertlagrant on Saturday March 29, 2025 @02:11PM (#43517374)
Tl;dr:

- probably all the data isn't from X

- the data seems to be all public - e.g.

   - user ID and screen name

   - number of followers

   - number of tweets

   - source of last Tweet (e.g. TweetDeck)

   - location and timezone

   - profile is protected or verified
I'm not sure that headline is very sensible to propagate.
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Re:Twitter (X) Hit by Data Leak of 2.8B Users – Allegedly an... by epoxia on Saturday March 29, 2025 @03:24PM (#43517885)
The "alleged inside job" is pretty clearly clickbait. It could still be a bad leak if that information is for privated accounts as well.
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Re:Twitter (X) Hit by Data Leak of 2.8B Users – Allegedly an... by ironhaven on Saturday March 29, 2025 @02:27PM (#43517475)
The posting client was removed from the UI and has not been public for a while
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Re:Twitter (X) Hit by Data Leak of 2.8B Users – Allegedly an... by sReinwald on Saturday March 29, 2025 @03:00PM (#43517672)
That's not quite correct. It is no longer visible on the website itself, or within the mobile clients. But if you inspect the requests, you can still see things like

    source: <a href="http://twitter.com/download/iphone" rel="nofollow">Twitter for iPhone</a>
which shows the tweet was posted from iOS.
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Re:Twitter (X) Hit by Data Leak of 2.8B Users – Allegedly an... by tech234a on Saturday March 29, 2025 @02:49PM (#43517609)
Yes it was removed the UI, but if you browse Twitter with developer tools open to the Network tab you can still find the posting client in the API response JSON when viewing a Tweet.
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Re:Twitter (X) Hit by Data Leak of 2.8B Users – Allegedly an... by areyourllySorry on Saturday March 29, 2025 @06:39PM (#43519362)
torrent metadata says it's from 2022, before it was "removed"

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:c963982c4ffa264fe76ec5918f83dd775521201b&dn=twitter_users_csv&tr=udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80&tr=udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce

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