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Twitter/X

Breaches
2
2 verified
Records Exposed
218.2M
Total across all breaches
Data Types Leaked
8
0 high risk
Latest Breach
2022
Twitter

Breach History

Twitter
Jan 2022High
Twitter200M
Jan 2021Medium
211.5M
Records exposed
4
Data types leaked
Verified
Status

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. The subsequent results were then composed into a corpus of data containing email addresses alongside public Twitter profile information including names, usernames and follower counts.

Exposed Data Types
Email addressesNamesSocial media profilesUsernames
Incident Status
Data breachYes
Data brokerNo
Policy contradictionsNo
Exposed Data Types
BiosLow risk
Email addressesLow risk
Geographic locationsLow risk
NamesLow risk
Phone numbersMedium risk
Profile photosLow risk
UsernamesLow risk
Social media profilesLow risk