Category: data leak

Hacker Claims to Be Selling Personal Data of 400 Million Twitter Users

A hacker claims to be selling the personal Twitter data of 400 million users, according to a report. The individual in question claimed to be selling the public and private data of more than 400 million Twitter users stolen in November 2021, which exploited an API vulnerability that was not fixed until January 2022. Although…


Hacker Claims to Have Data on 1 Billion Chinese Citizens From Police Files

A trove of data of more than one billion Chinese residents, allegedly hacked from the Shanghai police, has been listed for sale on the dark web. If verified, it could amount to the biggest data leak in the country’s history. “In 2022, the Shanghai National Police (SHGA) database was leaked,” read a post dated June 30…