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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.

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Twitter (200M)
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211.5M
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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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