Recently, the company Hudson Rock, specialized in internet crimes, informed that hackers invaded the twitter and reached around 200 million accounts. E-mails, account identifiers and contact telephone numbers were exposed on a hacker forum.
After the hack, the data was shared with a wide audience, and criminals secured “exclusive records” of people who were exposed. That is, other hackers had access to the leaked data. According to the source, the target audience of the attack is larger accounts.
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Twitter hacking attack
In a statement, Alon Gal, co-founder and director of technology of Hudson Rock, reported the action through LinkedIn.
“This is one of the most significant data leaks in history and will unfortunately lead to many accounts being hacked, phished and doxxed,” said Gal, who he added: “I urge Twitter users to change their passwords and be suspicious of any phishing attempts, and that Twitter recognize this breach as soon as possible. possible,” he said.
In the same post, Gal reported that the exposed data could reach 235 million. This information was also taken to CNN, Reuters and The Guardian.
For now, Twitter has not responded to the data leak and remains without stating what actually happened. Later, Gal reported that hackers are taking advantage so that large social network accounts can be invaded, as well as political accounts are targeted by criminals.
According to the Bleeping Computer website, hacker attacks have been happening on Twitter since July 2022. Afterwards, the data is exposed in the largest amount possible.
Gal's first account of the hack was in December 2022, when hackers were hacking the Twitter API with the intent of hacking the data system with 400 million Twitter users social network. Later, a hacker who identified himself as “Ryushi” pointed out that he would only delete the data for the amount of US$200,000.
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