The breach, allegedly dated january 2025, is now being deemed one of the largest data leaks in social media history Twitter users should be aware of targeted phishing scam campaigns. Breach origin and allegations the leak first came to light on march 28, 2025, when a data leak forum user, “thinkingone,” published detailed information about.
Email addresses of over 20 crore Twitter users ‘LEAKED’, data allegedly
More than 200 million claimed leaked and stolen data records relating to x users have been posted on a popular hacker forum
What you need to know.
However, hackers claim to have leaked data on almost 2.9 billion users The discrepancy could be explained by bot accounts, deleted profiles, and other accounts not tied to individual users For now, there is no evidence that any x systems were compromised While scraping public data is not catastrophic, it is still a privacy concern.
Twitter would constantly ban my account on false grounds and demand that i provide a phone number to get reinstated I refused and would continue a lengthy appeal process with my account suspended for months at a time or longer I'm sure many others acquiesced and are now regretting it if the phone numbers are, indeed, leaked Data collection sale was started on 4th december 2023 containing more than 200 million twitter profiles
The breached data was released as a 59 gb rar archive
The vulnerable api was compromised by the scrapers using earlier data collections
