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Twitter (200M) data breach (2021)

In early 2023, over 200M records scraped from Twitter appeared on a popular hacking forum. The data was obtained sometime in 2021 by abusing an API that enabled email addresses to be resolved to Twitter profiles.

Victim
Twitter (200M)
records
211.5M
SectorMedia
CountryUnited States

Imported from Have I Been Pwned — pending editorial review and translation to French. The summary below is machine-extracted; consult the source for details.

In 2021-01-01, Twitter (200M) was affected by a data breach. Approximately 211,524,284 accounts were exposed. In early 2023, over 200M records scraped from Twitter appeared on a popular hacking forum. The data was obtained sometime in 2021 by abusing an API that enabled email addresses to be resolved to Twitter profiles.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Twitter(200M)
  2. twitter.comhttps://twitter.com

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