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Twitter data breach (2022)

In January 2022, a vulnerability in Twitter's platform allowed an attacker to build a database of the email addresses and phone numbers of millions of users of the social platform.

Victim
Twitter
records
6.7M
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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 2022-01-01, Twitter was affected by a data breach. Approximately 6,682,453 accounts were exposed. In January 2022, a vulnerability in Twitter's platform allowed an attacker to build a database of the email addresses and phone numbers of millions of users of the social platform.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Twitter
  2. twitter.comhttps://twitter.com

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