Alleged leak of personal data of 200 million X users
Allegations emerged of a leak of personal information affecting more than 200 million X users. Hackers were also claimed to have distributed 2.9 billion records related to Twitter/X users, while it was also explained that the data was public information. Later, a leak of about 200 million social media records was also reported.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- X
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Alleged leak of personal information of about 200 million users
- Cause / method
- Not confirmed
- Location
- Other countries
If your data was exposed
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Timeline
- Allegations emerged of a data leak affecting more than 200 million X users.
- Hackers were claimed to have distributed 2.9 billion records related to Twitter/X, along with an explanation that the data was public information.
- A leak of about 200 million social media records related to X was reported.
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