Twitter (200M)

What Happened

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

Email addresses
Names
Social media profiles
Usernames

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    211.5 million

  • Breach Occurred:

    January 2021

  • Added to HIBP:

    5 Jan 2023

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