Last updated: January 12, 2023, 3:27 PM IST
Twitter says the data was not misused from its system
Twitter Inc said Wednesday that there is no evidence that data recently sold online was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability in the company’s systems.
(Reuters) – Twitter Inc said on Wednesday there is no evidence that data recently sold online was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability in the company’s systems.
Twitter said data from 5.4 million of the accounts had been compromised by a bug it discovered early last year, which it fixed and disclosed earlier in the summer.
Another 600 million pieces of user data “could not be correlated with the previously reported incident, nor with any new incident,” Twitter said in a blog post.
“There is no evidence that the data being sold online was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability in Twitter’s systems. The data is likely a collection of data that is already publicly available online from various sources,” it said.
The social media company told users in August last year that a system vulnerability revealed users’ Twitter accounts by entering their email address or phone number, after the company learned about it months earlier through a bug bounty program.
In December, media reports claimed that someone could gain access to more than 400 million Twitter-linked emails and phone numbers of users, and that the data had been exposed through the same vulnerability discovered in January 2022.
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