Data alleged to contain the email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users is being given away for free on a hacker forum, reports say.
According to The BBC, the stolen information includes email addresses used to set up accounts, which will worry anonymous users who registered with a sensitive address.
Doxxing is the act of publishing personal information about someone that can lead to their identification. The BBC has not downloaded the material, which has to be unlocked by using 20p worth of the forum credits. It reported: “The full dataset has obviously not been confirmed. The dataset is far from complete, as there were many users who were not found in the leak.”
“As ever with giant database hacks, it is extremely hard to verify if the stolen details are legitimate. Early indications are that at least some of the sample data the criminal is offering are real, and three Twitter users have confirmed to me that their leaked email addresses are real.
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