Going by the username Ryushi, the particular person
posted a pattern database of 1,000 customers with non-public info of well-known personalities reminiscent of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Brian Krebs, Vitalik Buterin, Kevin O’Leary and Donald Trump Jr, in addition to the account of India’s info and broadcasting ministry.
The particular person warned Twitter and its chief govt Elon Musk of the implications, together with hefty fines below the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), of such a sizeable information breach.
He wrote: “Twitter or Elon Musk, if you are reading this, you are already risking a GDPR fine over 5.4 million breach. Imagine the fine for a 400 million users breach.”
The menace actor was referring to the hefty fines that may be coming Musk’s manner after a high privateness regulator within the European Union opened a probe into experiences of a suspected information breach that compromised the non-public particulars of 5.4 million customers final yr.
He added: “Your best option to avoid paying $276 million in GDPR breach fines like Facebook did (due to 533 million users being scraped) is to buy this data exclusively.”
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The leak was introduced by Alon Gal, cofounder and chief technical officer of Israel-based cybersecurity agency Hudson Rock,
on his LinkedIn account.
“The data is increasingly more likely to be valid and was probably obtained from an API vulnerability enabling the threat actor to query any email/phone and retrieve a Twitter profile,” he wrote.
The menace actor provided the info to Musk completely, saying as soon as he purchased it, the information can be deleted at his finish and never bought to anybody else.
“That (such things) will make your user lose trust in you as a company and thus stunt the current growth and hype that you are having. Also, just imagine famous content creators and influencers getting hacked on Twitter. That will surely make them ghost the platform and ruin your dream of a Twitter video-sharing platform for content creators,” he warned Musk.
Last month, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), the lead regulator of Meta within the EU, fined the tech main greater than $275 million after media experiences steered that non-public information reminiscent of electronic mail addresses and cell phone numbers of greater than 530 million Facebook customers had been uncovered on-line.