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Twitter Data Breach Hits 5.4M Users

Twitter has acknowledged that hackers exploited a previously disclosed security bug to steal the user records of more than 5.4 million people who use the social media platform. So reports The Independent.

twitter 2430933 1280The bug was brought to light through a bug bounty program in December 2021 and was patched by Twitter—but not before hackers accessed users’ private phone numbers and email addresses, which they started selling in July.

While Twitter said that it “deeply regretted” the breach, security experts cautioned that the breadth of what hacks will do with the data remains to be seen.

Read the full article from The Independent.

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