Sundar Pichai, Salman Khan, and 40 Crore other Twitter users data up for sale on the dark web
Reports indicate that the personal data of almost 40 Crore users have been hacked and is on sale on the dark web. This includes the data of Sundar Pichai and Salman Khan. Hudson Rock, a cyber intelligence company, has revealed that data such as name, username, e-mail, followers, and phone numbers are up for sale. This is the biggest Twitter hack to date
Twitter hack: What do we know so far
An anonymous hacker has published samples of data on the internet to show prospective buyers a bit of what they are paying for. The data breach has led to some high-profile accounts being hacked, such as those of:
– SpaceX
– CBS Media
– Donald Trump Jr.
– Sundar Pichai
– Salman Khan
– Doja Cat
– Charlie Puth
– NASA’s JWST account
– NBA
– Shawn Mendes
– Social Media of WHO
– Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India
– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Twitter hacker’s message to Elon Musk
In the post, the hacker wrote “Twitter or Elon Musk if you are reading this you are already risking a GDPR fine over 5.4m breach imagine the fine of 400m users breach source. Your best option to avoid paying $276 million USD in GDPR breach fines like Facebook did (due to 533m users being scraped) is to buy this data exclusively.”
The hacker added that the deal can be facilitated via middlemen, and then confirmed “After that I will delete this thread and will not sell this data again. And data will not be sold to anyone else which will prevent a lot of celebrities and politicians from Phishing, Crypto scams, Sim swapping, Doxxing and other things that will make your users Lose trust in you as a company and thus stunt the current growth and hype that you are having also just imagine famous content creators and influencers getting hacked on Twitter that will for sure Make them ghost the platform and ruin your dream of twitter video sharing platform for content creators, also since you Made the mistake of changing twitter policy that got an immense backlash”.
