Amid all the Twitter drama that’s been going on lately, the company is facing more dilemmas. But this time, it’s taking on a new security threat that not many people saw coming, including its own team of security analysts.
The security flaw was first noticed in 2022, and since then, we’ve seen it make its way to major claims of selling the app’s 5.4 million account details. And in return, she demands a price of $30,000.
When you actually think about the offer, it’s definitely not that big. If you refer to the recent past in the digital world, then there was a hacker who offered for sale 478 million account details belonging to T Mobile users.
The scheme came to people’s knowledge in 2021. And closely followed was another conspiracy to hack the account details of 70 million AT&T users, which had touched the digital world in the same year and coincidentally, during the same month.
But this new news is definitely shocking, and it comes thanks to data obtained by Restore Privacy. They discovered how the vulnerability first appeared earlier this year. At the time, the company says it was clearly a major security issue.
They also proceeded to pay the first person who witnessed the scheme a whopping $5,000 reward as a sign of gratitude.
In terms of more details on this matter, we know that there is an impersonating actor who is willing to sell the data obtained through this particular vulnerability.
And believe it or not, this particular post continues to be live as we speak, so the threat is still imminent. You can find the hacker on a forum that is created for dark purposes like these and according to what experts say, the actor is called “devil”.
He adds that his dataset offers a wide range of candidates that come from major firms and celebrities to random individuals and more. And after several tech analysts and media tried to contact him for more information, they got a few more details about the deal.
For starters, it costs $30,000 and that’s fixed. No haggling is allowed, not a penny more or less. The seller also takes this chance to investigate Twitter’s high incompetence, which is why he was able to obtain the details in the first place.
The Breach Forums website is where you’ll find him making the impressive claims and deals, and it also has a whole sample of the kinds of details you can get after the deal is finalized.
Once you take a look, you quickly realize that it’s no joke, and Twitter has acknowledged that it’s a growing threat to its firm.
The data includes profile information taken from the Twitter accounts of so many users, including some very personal details like email IDs and login phone numbers as well. Thankfully, there are no passwords yet, but you can expect anything.
Twitter fears that the issue could be further exacerbated by advertisers buying such data for exploitation purposes.
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