Hackers have hacked the email addresses and phone numbers of 20 crore Twitter users by breaching security, a researcher has said. Virat Kohli, Salman Khan and other celebrities are among the data hacked by the hackers. The hacked information has been published by the mysterious persons in the hacker group. After this information was released, Twitter users were very worried.
A security researcher has made a big revelation about the privacy of Twitter users.
In the new alleged data theft (hack), the email addresses and phone numbers of more than 20 crore users on Twitter have been released by hackers (mysterious persons) in the hacker group.
The stolen data included the email addresses that more than ten million users had entered to create their Twitter accounts.
A screenshot of the data allegedly released by the hackers on the hacker group shows the names of many celebrities and film industry actors, according to a cyber security researcher.
That is, the names of many important people including the names of Indian celebrities like star sportsmen Virat Kohli, Virender Sehwag and Bollywood actors Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar, Hrithik Roshan, Anushka Sharma etc.
It is said to be showing up on some users’ databases with the words “Can’t wait to mess around thanks to your service”.
The alleged data breach has yet to be independently verified. It is also said that such data leaks often involve fake, outdated or duplicate data.
After this information was released, Twitter users were very worried. As of now, no information about the hackers has been received. There is no information on when this data was hacked.
The hackers who stole the data are yet to be identified. It is noteworthy that no clue has been found regarding their whereabouts.
The Twitter management has not yet commented on the alleged theft of Twitter users’ data.
Meanwhile, it is also said that this data may have been stolen before Elon Musk acquired Twitter.