1y ago

9.4GB Twitter(X) Data Leaked - Over 200 Million Records Exposed Online

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1y ago

9.4GB Twitter(X) Data Leaked - Over 200 Million Records Exposed Online

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That's what happens when you fire all your security people, Musk. You fucking idiot.
- Now that I think about it, I’m surprised this didn’t happen sooner.
- Somebody scraped public data to generate this data set
Anyone still on X deserves it at this point.
- I have a couple thousand followers on twitter but no followers on bluesky or mastodon ahahh. It’s so hard to grow them. I post my content on all three for now.
  
  How does your engagement compare across all three?
  
  I looked up your account and you now have your first official follower on Mastadon. :)
- what my mom do :(
  
  Your dad
- Nice victim blaming.
  
  That's what happens when the victim is an accomplice...
It all happens on X, right? Wait I mean Twitter. No, X. Wait. The X formerly known as Twitter. Twix? No wait, that's delicious candy. Well whatever, it was going to happen sooner or later, Musk's an idiot.
- my preference is Xitter (pronounced shitter)
  
  The only correct choice.
- Twitter (insisted by Musk to be called X)
Formerly the Twitter
this seems like what happened in 2021. Whoever wrote this article apparently got excited and didn't verify its authenticity.
- That's unimportant. All that matters is that we hate Elon Musk and never stop talking about him
  
  I’m just about at my two minutes, so I’ll see you all tomorrow.
  Oh what? That was 40 years ago? We’re now doing 20 minutes of hate per day? Okay I’ll stick around.
Okay this looks big as far as data, but is there any information here that isnt (wasnt) already public? This looks like profile information. Isnt all this already available?
- Real name and email associated with twitter account, which aren't always outwardly exposed. They would be considered PII.
- this looks big as far as data
  It’s 10 GB
  
  10 GB of a database table sounds like a lot of records. Of course if this contained pictures or other media then this wouldnt be much. But I dont know for certain what data was leaked.
The breach, sourced from a Twitter (X) database or scrape...
The fact that they don't specify, and that it's names, usernames, and email addresses, means this could all be public data.
- This is why i'm waiting for further coverage.
Is 9GB alot? That seems microscopic to me. I suppose it depends on the nature of the data?
- Well, text is very very small. Make a Notepad doc with your username, phone number, email and your data you'd put on a social media and check the weight and then divide 9GB by it!
Back in the day one had to pay good money for that training data. Now the data frees itself.

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