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Breach occurred 2021-01-01Verifiedtwitter.com
What happened
In early 2023, over 200M records scraped from Twitter appeared on a popular hacking forum. The data was obtained sometime in 2021 by abusing an API that enabled email addresses to be resolved to Twitter profiles. The subsequent results were then composed into a corpus of data containing email addresses alongside public Twitter profile information including names, usernames and follower counts.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Twitter (200M) data breach occurred on January 1, 2021. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on January 5, 2023.
211,524,284 accounts were affected by the Twitter (200M) data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Twitter (200M) breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Names, Social media profiles, Usernames.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the Twitter (200M) breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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