Private Twitter data pertaining to 5 million users was reshared in a hacker forum last Thursday after first being leaked in July.
Whereas July’s leak came with a price tag of $30,000, Thursday’s dump was provided for free.
User Private Info Revealed
Pompompurin, the owner of the hacking forum HackerOne, confirmed to BleepingComputer over the weekend that his site was responsible for the initial data dump.
Back in December, a Twitter API bug was discovered as part of the forum’s bug bounty program, which let people retrieve specific Twitter IDs by submitting an associated phone number or email address. This allowed threat actors to build user records on millions of accounts using both public and private information.
Enough data was collected by July for a threat actor to start selling the private info of 5.4 million users for $30,000 in an online forum. This data included phone numbers and email addresses, alongside public information like names, Twitter IDs, locations, logi
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