X data breach Biggest cyber attack ever: Big news has come out related to microblogging platform X (formerly known as Twitter). Claims of the biggest cyber attack on X are being made. A cybersecurity report has claimed that a hacker has stolen the data of about 20 crore (200 million) X users. If the claim of a cyberattack on X proves to be true, then it could be the biggest data breach attack in history.
The first information related to the theft of X users’ data was released on a website called Safety Detectives, which claimed that a post was made on a hacking forum called BreachForums, in which a 34GB downloadable file was shared. This file contained sensitive information related to X users, including user ID and screenname, full name and location, email address, number of followers, profile data and time zone, profile image, and much other sensitive information.
Researchers at Safety Detectives examined the leaked data and found that the information of 100 users in it was real. The website also confirmed that the leaked email addresses were also real. However, it could not be ascertained whether these emails belong to the respective users or not.
There has been no official statement from X on this entire matter yet. However, this incident is once again raising questions about the security of the social media platform.
The rate of cybercrimes is rapidly increasing across the world. This situation leads us to rethink our way of handling social media. Often posting on social media leads to data theft. The recent move made by Elon Musk. He sold X, formerly known as Twitter, to his own startup company. Now the data theft related to X is leading people to realize the rate of growing cybercrimes.
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