"Ireland to Examine Twitter Data Breach That May Affect 400M+ Users"

Ireland's privacy regulator has declared that it will investigate a recently discovered data leak that could affect over 400 million Twitter users. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) is already probing the company for an earlier data breach. In the latter incident, which occurred in November, hackers leaked the personal information of 5.4 million Twitter users. Earlier this month, there were reports that the personal information of more than 400 million Twitter users had been made available on a hacker forum. The hacked data reportedly includes the names, phone numbers, usernames, follower counts, and account creation dates of the impacted users. The hacker responsible for the attack requested $200,000 in exchange and deletion of the data. Additionally, the hacker made the data of over 1,000 users public. According to reports, the users include politicians, celebrities, and other public figures. Reportedly, a vulnerability in one of Twitter's Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) was exploited to steal the data. The bug in the API was caused by a flaw in software released in 2021, which allowed hackers to discover the phone numbers and email addresses associated with certain Twitter accounts. This article continues to discuss Ireland launching an investigation of the recent Twitter data breach.

SiliconANGLE reports "Ireland to Examine Twitter Data Breach That May Affect 400M+ Users"