Twitter is threatened with fines of up to hundreds of millions for the GDPR violation, if it does not buy back the data.
Twitter has allegedly been subject to a data breach. PDO
Username Ryushi A hacker using an industry forum claims to have stolen the data of more than 400 million Twitter users, says Security Affairs.
According to the hacker, the data breach was made possible by Twitter’s vulnerability. He managed to take, for example, the phone numbers and email addresses of politicians, companies and ordinary users. The goal is to sell information.
In his “sale notice”, the hacker lists the information of a thousand example users, among others the ex-president of the United States Donald Trump and editor Brian Kebs.
In his writing, the seller tries to trade information directly back to Twitter and For Elon Musk. The seller refers to an August case where the information of 5.4 million Twitter users appeared on the discussion forum, which is still in use today.
– Twitter or Elon Musk, if you are reading this, you are already threatened with a GDPR fine for the data breach of 5.4 million users, Imagine the fine coming from the data of 400 million users, the hacker writes freely in Finnish.
The hacker also brings up, for example, a case from 2019, where the data of more than 500 million users was taken from Facebook. Facebook’s parent company Meta was fined 275 million dollars for the incident.