The biggest hack in the history of Twitter; The information of 400 million users was leaked
The co-founder of the Hudson Rock cyber security company announced the biggest hack in the history of Twitter and said that the information of 400 million users was leaked during this cyber attack.
Elon Gale, the co-founder of the cybersecurity company Hudson Rock and the person who first identified the Facebook security breach in 2021, recently claimed that hackers were able to extract the information of 400 million Twitter users through an API vulnerability and sell them on Provide dark web. In fact, due to this vulnerability, hackers managed to gain access to important information such as email addresses and phone numbers of users of this popular social network.
Details of the biggest hack in Twitter history
The co-founder of the cyber security company Hudson Rock continued his statements and announced that hackers have also published samples of 1000 famous user accounts on the dark web such as Donald Trump (former president of the United States), Vitalik Buterin (founder of Ethereum) and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (representative of the United States Congress). they did He emphasized that he was able to confirm the biggest hack in the history of Twitter by examining a sample of information published by hackers.
Of course, by publishing this information on Dark Web, hackers announced that they extracted this information from Twitter in the beginning of 2022 during a cyber attack. They offered Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, to buy this hacked information to prevent lawsuits against Twitter in Europe; Because Twitter is still facing legal problems due to the hacking of its previous information.
In addition, at the beginning of the summer of 2022, hackers extracted the information of more than 5.4 million Twitter users, including phone numbers, emails, location, and usernames, and offered them on the dark web for $30,000. Hackers were able to obtain such information in their previous attack using an API vulnerability.
It should be noted that the European Union will consider fines for Twitter according to the GDPR rules after investigating the security problems of social networks. In addition, Ireland’s DPC also fined Twitter about 450,000 dollars two years ago due to a security breach.