27/12/2022
A hacker claims to have stolen the data of nearly 400 million Twitter users and put it up for sale on the da*k network.
According to Israeli cyber intelligence firm Hudson Rock, the database contained a wealth of information, including emails and phone numbers of prominent users.
Hudson Rock shared an image of a post on Twitter in which hackers shared information about the data breach.
The stolen data included information on the World Health Organization, the Joint Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and American singer Charlie Puth, among others.
"I'm selling the data of over 400 million unique Twitter users who were deleted due to a security breach, completely private," the hacker wrote in his post.
The hacker, who claims to have stolen the data, has offered a deal to Twitter, according to the report.
"Twitter or Elon Musk, if you are reading this post, you are already at risk of GDPR fines for the data leak of over 54 million users. Now fines for data leak of 400 million users," said the hacker.
"Your best option to avoid paying $2.76 million in CDPR breach fines like Facebook did (due to 533 million users being scraped) is to buy this data exclusively," it added.