Data of 400M Twitter users offered for sale on hacking forum
A hacker is offering data from some 400 million Twitter accounts for sale that is said to have been scraped via an application programming interface vulnerability.
The hacker goes by the name of Ryushi on BreachForums, the successor site to the now-shuttered RaidForums. The hacker claims that the data includes the email addresses and phone numbers of celebrities, politicians, companies and others. On the listing, Ryushi lists email addresses for Donald Trump Jr., Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Piers Morgan, Stephen Curry and various others. The hacker also links to a .CSV file with the same information for an additional 1,000 Twitter users as further proof.
In a twist, the hacker also addresses both Twitter and Elon Musk, claiming that their best option is to purchase the data — which is then claimed to be 533 million users, to avoid the risk of a European Union General Data Protection Regulation fine. Ryushi then adds that if Musk or Twitter purchases the data, the data will not be sold to others “which will prevent a lot of celebrities and politicians from phishing, crypto scams, sim swapping, doxing and other things that will make your users lose trust in you as a company.
