Twitter Zero-Day Exposes Data Of 5.4 MILLION Accounts | Security Insights By #PurpleSec

Social media platform Twitter confirmed they suffered a now-patched zero-day vulnerability, used to link email addresses and phone numbers to users’ accounts, which allowed attackers to gain access to the personal information of 5.4 million users.

The vulnerability allowed anyone to submit an email address or phone number, verify if it was associated with a Twitter account, and retrieve the associated account ID.

More technically, what the security researcher Zhirinovsky reported on HackerOne’s bug bounty platform is that this vulnerability …

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