Data of 400 mn Twitter users stolen, claims hacker

New Delhi: A hacker has claimed to have stolen the data of nearly 400 million Twitter users and put it up for sale on the dark web.
According to Israeli cyber intelligence firm, Hudson Rock, the database contains devastating amounts of information, including e-mails and phone numbers of high-profile users.
Hudson Rock has shared pictures of the post on Twitter in which the hacker has shared information about the data leak.
The stolen data includes information about the WHO, the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and American singer Charlie Puth, among others.
“I am selling data of +400 million unique Twitter users that was scrapped via a vulnerability, this data is completely private,” the hacker wrote in his post.
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