Hackers Sell 5.4 Million Twitter User Data, The sale of twitter user data is done in the hacking forum. Twitter suffered a data breach after cybercriminals exploited a vulnerability on the social media platform. vulnerabilities in Twitter, hackers were able to steal a database containing phone numbers and email addresses belonging to 5.4 million accounts.
Quoting BleepingComputer taken, Monday, July 25, 2022, currently the data for 5.4 million Twitter accounts is being sold on a hacking forum for USD 30,000 or around Rp. 450 million. The hacker nicknamed 'The Devil' said on the Stolen Data Marketplace, a database containing information about various accounts, including celebrities, companies and random users.
"Hi, today I'm showing you data collected through exploits from some Twitter users. (5,485,636 users to be exact)," wrote a thread on the forum. “These users range from celebrities to corporate, random, OG, etc,” adds The Devil. The perpetrator said that there were several buyers who were interested in buying the Twitter user data.
As Restore Privacy reports, the vulnerability used to collect data is the same as that to Twitter via HackerOne on January 1 and fixed on January 13. "This vulnerability allows any party without authentication to get the Twitter ID (which is almost the same as getting the account username) of any user by sending a phone number/email," said security researcher 'zhirinovskiy'.
"The bug exists because of the authorization process used in the Twitter Android Client, especially in the process of checking for duplicate Twitter accounts." However, Devil told BleepingComputer they are not affiliated with zhirinovskiy and have never used HackerOne.
"I don't want a white hat hacker (good hacker) in the matter of who he reported on H1. I think a lot of people tried to connect him with me, I would be angry if I were him," the perpetrator told BleepingComputer.
via: https://tantrum.voice.com/read/2022/07/25/081500/hacker-jual-54-juta-data-user-twitter
