Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD/SAN FRANCISCO: Hackers have stolen the data of nearly 400 million Twitter users and put it up for sale on the dark web.
As per Israeli cyber intelligence firm Hudson Rock, the stolen data includes names of users, email IDs, number of followers, and phone numbers of users.
The leak also consists of the data of the accounts of the Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and the American space agency NASA. In addition, the hackers have hacked and stolen the account data of the famous Bollywood star Salman Khan, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and the World Health Organization.
The hackers wrote in their post
‘’Twitter or Elon Musk, if you are reading this post, you are already at risk of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) fines for the data leakage of more than 54 million users, and now think about the penalty for the data leakage of 400 more million users.’’
“Your best option to avoid paying $2.76 million in GDPR breach fines like Facebook did (due to 533 million users being scraped) is to buy this data exclusively,” it added.
It should be noted that this is the second time in two months that Twitter’s data has been stolen and offered for sale on the dark web; previously, this issue came to light on November 27.
