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Twitter data breach exposes contact details for 5.4M accounts; on sale for $30k

Twitter data breach exposes contact details for 5.4M accounts; on sale for $30k.
A Twitter data breach has allowed an attacker to get access to the contact details of 5.4M accounts. Twitter has confirmed the security vulnerability which allowed the data to be extracted. The data – which ties Twitter handles to phone numbers and email addresses – has been offered for sale on a hacking forum, for […]

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peterchancc

peterchancc

So by Twitter just admitting the data breach, they are not liable anymore, for anything?

AstonJ

AstonJ

You could probably sue them if your details were included :upside_down_face:

DevotionGeo

DevotionGeo

How to find out if someone’s details were included?

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