Threat actor Ryushi claims to have accessed a database of 400m Twitter users' private info and is offering to sell it exclusively to prevent misuse.
Threat actor Ryushi claims to have accessed a database of 400m Twitter users’ private info and is offering to sell it exclusively to prevent misuse.
Cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock has disclosed that a threat actor is trying to sell the users’ data of 400 million Twitter customers containing private information about celebrities, politicians, and companies. Some of the big names include former U.S. President Donald Trump, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary, billionaire investor Mark Cuban, and lots more.the data was obtained earlier this year via a Twitter vulnerability. The database contains information about the breached Twitter users, including their emails, account creation dates, and phone numbers.
Ryushi told Musk that failure to cooperate would attract GDPR breach fines of up to $276 million, just like Facebook did when over 500 million users’ data was exposed.“Twitter or Elon Musk, if you’re reading this you are already risking a GDPR fine over 5.4m imaging the fine if 400m users breach. Your best option to avoid paying $276 million USD in GDPR breach fines like Facebook did is to buy this data exclusively…,” the message read.
“Please Note: At this stage it is not possible to fully verify that there are indeed 400,000,000 users in the database. From an independent verification the data itself appears to be legitimate and we will follow up with any developments,” the cybercrime intelligence firm stated.
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