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Twitter (X) Hit by Data Leak of 2.8B Users – Allegedly an Insider Job

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Re: Twitter (X) Hit by Data Leak of 2.8B Users – Allegedly an Insider Job

#11

Post by 3np »

philsquared_ wrote: post #10

Clickbait. Leak has irrelevant and useless data. Why anyone would bother to "steal" this data I have no clue. Almost all of it could be collected if you scraped the site over time.

Registered account e-mail addresses are ~supposedly~ in the leak and not public.

EDIT: That was apparently a mistake. Still, not all of the data in the dump is public or useless.

Re: Twitter (X) Hit by Data Leak of 2.8B Users – Allegedly an Insider Job

#12

Post by tech234a »

ironhaven wrote: post #6
robertlagrant wrote: post #2

Tl;dr: - probably all the data isn't from X - the data seems to be all public - e.g. - user ID and screen name - number of followers - number of tweets - source of last Tweet (e.g. TweetDeck) - location and timezone - profile is protected or verified I'm not sure that headline is very sensible to propagate.

The posting client was removed from the UI and has not been public for a while

Yes it was removed the UI, but if you browse Twitter with developer tools open to the Network tab you can still find the posting client in the API response JSON when viewing a Tweet.

Re: Twitter (X) Hit by Data Leak of 2.8B Users – Allegedly an Insider Job

#13

Post by sReinwald »

ironhaven wrote: post #6
robertlagrant wrote: post #2

Tl;dr: - probably all the data isn't from X - the data seems to be all public - e.g. - user ID and screen name - number of followers - number of tweets - source of last Tweet (e.g. TweetDeck) - location and timezone - profile is protected or verified I'm not sure that headline is very sensible to propagate.

The posting client was removed from the UI and has not been public for a while

That's not quite correct. It is no longer visible on the website itself, or within the mobile clients. But if you inspect the requests, you can still see things like

    source: Twitter for iPhone
which shows the tweet was posted from iOS.

Re: Twitter (X) Hit by Data Leak of 2.8B Users – Allegedly an Insider Job

#15

Post by coverband »

3np wrote: post #11
philsquared_ wrote: post #10

Clickbait. Leak has irrelevant and useless data. Why anyone would bother to "steal" this data I have no clue. Almost all of it could be collected if you scraped the site over time.

Registered account e-mail addresses are ~supposedly~ in the leak and not public. EDIT: That was apparently a mistake. Still, not all of the data in the dump is public or useless.

Not according to the article.

Re: Twitter (X) Hit by Data Leak of 2.8B Users – Allegedly an Insider Job

#16

Post by epoxia »

robertlagrant wrote: post #2

Tl;dr: - probably all the data isn't from X - the data seems to be all public - e.g. - user ID and screen name - number of followers - number of tweets - source of last Tweet (e.g. TweetDeck) - location and timezone - profile is protected or verified I'm not sure that headline is very sensible to propagate.

The "alleged inside job" is pretty clearly clickbait. It could still be a bad leak if that information is for privated accounts as well.

Re: Twitter (X) Hit by Data Leak of 2.8B Users – Allegedly an Insider Job

#17

Post by areyourllySorry »

ironhaven wrote: post #6
robertlagrant wrote: post #2

Tl;dr: - probably all the data isn't from X - the data seems to be all public - e.g. - user ID and screen name - number of followers - number of tweets - source of last Tweet (e.g. TweetDeck) - location and timezone - profile is protected or verified I'm not sure that headline is very sensible to propagate.

The posting client was removed from the UI and has not been public for a while

torrent metadata says it's from 2022, before it was "removed"

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:c963982c4ffa264fe76ec5918f83dd775521201b&dn=twitter_users_csv&tr=udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80&tr=udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce

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