© Reuters. Crypto Phishing Scams Likely Coming as Hacker Leaks Emails of 235M Twitter Users
- The hacker who stole the personal data of 235 million Twitter users has made it publicly available.
- The database contains 63 GB of users’ email addresses, account names, handles, creation dates, and follower counts.
- The data seems to have been collected between early 2021 and December 14, 2022.
- Vitalik Buterin, Kevin O’Leary, and other well-known crypto people are included in the database.
- Crypto investors and users should be cautious so as not to fall victim to potential social engineering attacks like phishing, spam, scam marketing campaigns, doxxing, etc.
Crypto investors and users should be aware of potential phishing and other types of attacks in the coming days, as the hacker who stole the personal data of over 235 million Twitter users has made it publicly available.
The attacker behind the Twitter data breach first announced the hack in late December. They asked for $200,000 from Twitter to return the stolen data and warned that if the company fails to pay them, they’ll release the data to the public for free.
The now publicly available database contains 63 GB of users’ email addresses, account names, handles, creation dates, and follower counts. It doesn’t include phone numbers. One member of the forum where the dataset was published said that original file dates and account creation dates suggest that the data was collected from early 2021 to December…
