Twitter confirms January breach, urges pseudonymous accounts to not add email or phone number

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Twitter officially confirmed that a January breach led to the leak of information connected to 5.4 million accounts.  Two weeks ago, a hacker on Breach Forums offered email addresses and phone numbers connected to the accounts, which they said ranged from “celebrities, companies, randoms, OGs, etc.” Researchers immediately tied the post to a vulnerability in […]

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