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Twitter Confirms Data Breach Affecting 5.4 Million Users  

Twitter has acknowledged that a previously known and patched vulnerability resulted in a data breach exposing some of the details of the social media service’s users. So reports Bleeping Computer.

twitter 2430933 1280Twitter said in a security advisory that the security weakness exploited by a threat actor in December 2021 was uncovered and fixed in January as part of the company’s bug bounty program.

The threat actor was reportedly able to input an email address or phone number, see if it was linked to a Twitter account, and then access the associated account ID.

Read the full article from Bleeping Computer.

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