verified2021-01-01
Twitter (200M)Twitter (200M) breach
twitter.com · 211,524,284 records compromised
Records
212M
Breach date
2021-01-01
Domain
twitter.com
Data classes
4
Description
In early 2023, over 200M records scraped from Twitter appeared on a popular hacking forum . The data was obtained sometime in 2021 by abusing an API that enabled email addresses to be resolved to Twitter profiles. The subsequent results were then composed into a corpus of data containing email addresses alongside public Twitter profile information including names, usernames and follower counts.
Compromised data classes· 4
Email addressesNamesSocial media profilesUsernames
Related by meaning· 6
Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.