A hacker claims to have obtained partial data on 400 million Twitter accounts, with a sample released online including purported information from former PM Scott Morrison’s page.
A hacker claims to have obtained partial data on 400 million Twitter accounts, with a sample released online including purported information from former prime minister Scott Morrison’s page.
Rob Potter, co-founder of Australian cybersecurity firm Internet 2.0, said the data appeared to have been taken via a method called “scraping”, which is where a savvy user finds a system that has been misconfigured to provide information, and requests data from it. In Morrison’s case, the email used in the file is his publicly available Parliament House address and there is no phone number or other sensitive information. But other celebrities in the file have had what appear to be personal email or phone numbers made public. British broadcaster Piers Morgan and model Cara Delevingne are among those listed.
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