Popular social media Twitter (Twitter) accounts have been hacked (Hacking). It is known that the e-mail IDs of more than 200 Million users of this micro blogging company have been leaked.
A security researcher revealed that hackers made them available on an online hacking forum. Alon Gal, co-founder of Hudson Rock, an Israeli cyber security monitoring company, said that there is a possibility of targeted phishing (Phishing) and Doxxing (Doxxing). He said it was one of the biggest ‘data leaks’ he had seen. On December 24 last year, he posted that his Twitter account had been hacked. However, Twitter has not yet made any statement on this matter. There is widespread interest in how the company, which is already in dire straits, will respond.
Meanwhile, the news of hacking became a big sensation on social media. Initially 400 Million Twitter accounts were reported to have been hacked, but now that number has come down to 200 Million. It is known that the mail IDs and phone numbers of these clients have been stolen. But cyber experts say that it is a big deal that so many accounts have been hacked.