New Twitter data dump is a cleaned up version of old Twitter dump

News of data dumps is often scary as the possibilities of identity theft, account takeovers, user de-anonymization, and other online data-driven threats rear their ugly heads. Reading about the latest reports of a new Twitter dump, however, is like opening up an already-healed wound, as the dump turned out to be the same one back in November 2022 that affected more than 400 million users. Security researchers from Privacy Affairs verified this to be true. Only this set is …

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