Massive breach of Elon Musk's X allegedly leaks over 200 mil...
Massive breach of Elon Musk's X allegedly leaks over 200 million users' email addresses
Mashable SEA | 2025-04-01 09:36
There's allegedly been a significant data breach at Elon Musk's X, formerly known as Twitter. Over the weekend, the cybersecurity team at SafetyDetectives discovered a post on the prominent hacking message board BreachForums from a poster named ThinkingOne. The post included a 34 GB .CVS file containing more than 201 million entries of data reportedly belonging to X users. This data includes plenty of metadata on each account, plus the email address connected to the account. SafetyDetectives said they checked a sample of users included in the leak and found that the information was correct and that the emails listed were valid. Where did the leak come from? It's unclear exactly how the breach occurred. This particular leak affects more than 200 million users. However, roughly 2.8 billion X accounts are reportedly affected, potentially making this one of the largest social media data ...
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