Data theft of 400 million Twitter users

San Francisco: The data of nearly 40 million users of Twitter, the world's most famous social media site, has been stolen.

According to media reports, the data of about 400 million users of Twitter has been stolen, and hackers have put the stolen data on the dark web for sale.

The stolen data includes names of users, email IDs, number of followers, and phone numbers of users.

According to the Indian media report, the data leak also includes the data of the accounts of the Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and the American space agency NASA. In addition, the hackers also hacked the famous Bollywood star Salman Khan, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and the World Health Organization. Account data has also been stolen.

 

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The hackers wrote in their post that Twitter or Elon Musk, if you are reading this post, you are already at risk of GDPR fines for the data leakage of more than 54 million users, now for the data leakage of 400 million users. Think about the penalty.

It should be noted that this is the second time in two months that Twitter's data has been stolen and offered for sale on the dark web, previously this issue has also come to light on November 27.