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Twitter (200M) data breach

Risk level: Low 19/100

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.
Breach date
1 January 2021
Date added
5 January 2023
Compromised accounts
211,524,284
Domain
twitter.com

Compromised data

  • Email addresses
  • Names
  • Social media profiles
  • Usernames

Breach attributes

  • Verified

Recommended steps if you were in the Twitter (200M) breach:

Security remediation checklist

Work through these steps, most urgent first: