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A malicious actor by the username “Ryushi” has claimed that he possesses data of over 400 million Twitter users
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The hacker has reportedly used a now-fixed API vulnerability to hack the data. The same vulnerability was earlier used to access data of over 5.4 million Twitter users.
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Ryushi has posted on a hacking forum, offering to sell the data to Twitter or other people willing to pay
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The hacker has offered to sell the data to a single buyer willing to shell out $200,000 or multiple buyers offering to pay $60,000 each
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The hacker has threatened that if Twitter does not buy the data itself, it may have to pay a fine under EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) privacy laws
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As a sample, the hacker has revealed some data of 37 celebrities such as Mark Cuban, Kevin O’Leary, Donald Trump JR and others
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As part of a larger sample, data of 1,000 users has been revealed by the hacker
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The data leaked includes the user’s name, Twitter username, follower count, creation data, phone number and email address
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The hacker has also revealed that he approached Twitter in an attempt to sell the data back, but the social media platform did not respond to the hacker
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