Twitter has denied the claim of getting hacked and the stolen data being sold online.
According to a LinkedIn post last week by Alon Gal, co-founder of the Israeli cybersecurity monitoring company Hudson Rock, stolen data has been discovered, that contained email addresses of more than 200 million twitter users.
The breach would probably result in “hacking, targeted phishing, and doxxing,” according to Gal, who labeled it as a “significant leak” and said that the information had been uploaded on an internet hacker forum.
He claimed that despite alerting the firm, Twitter, he had not received a response.
“I urge security researchers to conduct a thorough examination of the leaked data and rule out Twitter’s conclusion of the data being an enrichment of some sort which did not originate from their own servers,” says Alon Gal.
Although, Twitter has denied all claims of the emails, allegedly linked to the users’ accounts, being obtained through a hack.
In regards to the issue Twitter responded by stating “in response to recent media reports of Twitter users’ data being sold online, we conducted a thorough investigation and there is no evidence that data recently being sold was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability of Twitter systems.”
According to Twitter, the stolen records in question was instead probably a collection of data “already publicly
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