Twitter Inc mentioned on Wednesday that there was no proof that information just lately being bought on-line was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability within the firm’s techniques.
Twitter mentioned the info of 5.4 million of the accounts had been compromised by a bug it found early final yr, which it beforehand mounted and disclosed over the summer time.
Another 600 million items of consumer information “could not be correlated with the previously reported incident, nor with any new incident,” Twitter mentioned in a weblog submit.
“There is no evidence that the data being sold online was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability of Twitter systems. The data is likely a collection of data already publicly available online through different sources,” it mentioned.
The social media firm instructed customers in August final yr {that a} system vulnerability revealed Twitter accounts of customers by submitting their electronic mail deal with or cellphone quantity, after the corporate learnt about it by way of a bug bounty program months earlier.
In December, media experiences claimed that somebody may achieve entry to over 400 million Twitter-associated consumer emails and cellphone numbers, and that the info had been uncovered by way of the identical vulnerability found in January 2022. — Reuters
