While Elon Musk has been facing many problems since the day he took office as the CEO of twitter, twitter is currently facing an unprecedented data leak. Hudson Rock, Israel's cyber intelligence agency, has reported that a hacker stole the information of 40 million twitter users and sold it on the dark web. Out of these 40 crore users, the data of high-profile and famous users like google CEO Sundar Pichai, India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, and bollywood actor salman khan have been stolen and are currently being put up for sale.
Personal data of 40 million twitter users, such as email, usernames, followers, and phone numbers, has been put up for sale on the dark web, according to a Hudson Rock report. A few months ago, twitter, which is controlled by Elon Musk, suffered a data breach involving more than 5.4 million users. The data breach is being investigated by Ireland's Data Protection Authority. The hacker who stole the data is said to have made an offer to twitter CEO Elon Musk. This hacker claimed that the data of more than 400 million users has been stolen through a technical glitch in the dark web website Hockers Twitter.
Plus twitter or Elon Musk, if you're reading this post, you're at risk of GDPR fines for leaking the data of over 54 million users. Now you are fined for data leakage of 400 million users. In this case, you will have to pay the amount received as a penalty if the data theft is confirmed. To get away with this, the hacker made an offer to buy the data of these 40 million people outright to avoid paying $2.76 million in fines like facebook did for CDPR violations.
Among the twitter data now at risk are some of the important user accounts, below: SpaceX
Salman Khan
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, india
World health Organization (WGO) social media handle
Charlie Puth
Shawn Mendes
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
CBS media
Donald trump Jr.
Doja Kate
NASA's JWST Account
NBA.
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