200 million Twitter customers’ non-public data, together with their e mail addresses, was put on the market after a breach uncovered 400M customers’ non-public data within the final week of December 2022.

The hacker behind the December breach has earlier demanded $200,000 from Twitter in a bid to return the stolen information and warned if the demand isn’t fulfilled, the info will likely be launched at no cost. The most recent set of information posted on the hacker discussion board has been traced again to the identical breach from December 2022.

I went to vary my e mail tackle and Twitter is not working. This hack places activists and whistleblowers at risk. https://t.co/5SrSejgvO6

— Ian Linkletter (@Linkletter) January 5, 2023

Researchers at Privateness Affairs confirmed that the leaked information set on the hacker discussion board is similar from December. The 200 million quantity, on this case, resulted from the removing of duplicates. The launched information set doesn’t comprise cellphone numbers. The researchers warned that these information units could possibly be used to provoke social engineering or “doxing” campaigns.

The info set was initially 63GB, however after eradicating duplicates and compressing the recordsdata, the dimensions of the most recent information set was lowered to 4GB and free to obtain.

The hacker additionally famous that the evaluation of authentic file dates and account creation dates “strongly recommend” that this was collected from early November 2021 by means of December 14, 2021.

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Many customers on Twitter demanded that the social media platform appears into safety as these hacks put activists and whistleblowers at risk.

I went to vary my e mail tackle and Twitter is not working. This hack places activists and whistleblowers at risk. https://t.co/5SrSejgvO6

— Ian Linkletter (@Linkletter) January 5, 2023

Among the well-liked and recognized names and entities embrace Sundar Pichai, Donald Trump Jr., SpaceX, CBS Media, the NBA, and the WHO. The info breach vulnerability has been patched now, however tracing again to the hack, it appears the identical vulnerability was used for an additional exploit in July 2022.