No evidence new user data leaks obtained via system bug: Twitter

Twitter Inc stated on Wednesday there was no proof that information just lately being offered on-line was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability within the firm’s programs.

Twitter stated information of 5.4 million accounts had been compromised by a bug it found early final yr, which it beforehand mounted and disclosed over the summer season.

Another 600 million items of person information “could not be correlated with the previously reported incident, nor with any new incident,” Twitter stated in a weblog publish.

“There is no evidence that the data being sold online was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability of Twitter systems. The data is likely a collection of data already publicly available online through different sources,” it stated.

The social media firm informed customers in August final yr {that a} system vulnerability revealed Twitter accounts of customers by submitting their e mail tackle or cellphone quantity, after the corporate learnt about it by way of a bug bounty program months earlier.

In December, media studies claimed that somebody might acquire entry to over 400 million Twitter-associated person emails and cellphone numbers, and that the info had been uncovered by way of the identical vulnerability found in January 2022.

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