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This isn't an advertisement for Blue Sky. This is some serious sh*t that needs more news coverage. And Twitter is owned by the same guy who's been given access to all of our data.
Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, is no stranger to the news. What with the reported purchase of X by xAI for $33 billion, attackers claiming responsibility for platform outages, and X password scams targeting users. Now, another shock awaits the users of what used to be Twitter: a self-proclaimed data enthusiast has just given away what is claimed to be a database containing details of some 200 million X user records. Here’s what we know so far.
The story started in January 2022, when Twitter, as it was then, learned of a vulnerability through its bug bounty program that could enable an attacker to access data relating to platform users just by knowing an email address or telephone number. By July of that year, Twitter found that someone had exploited the vulnerability before it could be fixed and was selling a large amount of user data that had been collected in this way. “After reviewing a sample of the available data for sale, we confirmed that a bad actor had taken advantage of the issue before it was addressed,” Twitter confirmed at the time.
Fast forward to today, and that incident would appear to have come back to bite X users once more. Now, a data enthusiast called ThinkingOne says they have accessed that data and added it to a further breach, which they claimed was leaked in January 2025.
According to a posting on a well-known data breach forum, they decided to give the data away for free, having tried to contact X but with no response.
According to the Safety Detectives cybersecurity team which broke the story, ThinkingOne claims to “only have included records of X users present in both datasets.” The result is a 34 GB CSV file containing 201,186,753 data entries in total.
It is understood that the data, which has been verified in part at least to be genuine by the Safety Detectives researchers, included: X screen name and user IDs, full names, locations, email addresses, follower counts, profile data, time zones, profile images and more.
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You holding up OK? Almost there. Enjoy the Show.
foosballnick@ 6/12/2025 8:33 PM
Israel starts a pre-emptive war with Iran today.
Russia continuing to bomb and kill civilians by thr droves in Ukraine.
Hispanic senators being manhandled and handcuffed by unmarked Ice officials while in a Federal building.
American built commercial passenger airlines falling from the sky.
Riots and unrest in the streets of major cities
US armed forces deployed on US Soil
Tarriff uncertainty
Bond market uncertainty
Low stock on imported goods in California seaports
Job market starting to slow
Oil prices up
Dollar value down
Overnight equities markets very down
Spending bill in congress which will make significant cuts to Medicaid.
ICE raids to deport farm vegetable pickers
POTUS playing the most golf in 5 months of any President in history over their entire terms
POYUS using his position to pocket $5M a plate at Mara Lago.
And that's just today folks. Sorry but anyone who still supports this despot a-hole should be deported to that jail in El Salvatore never to be seen from again.
GustavBahler@ 7/1/2025 2:16 PM
The cruelty is the point, and some folks are just plain masochists.
