Massive X data leak affects over 200 million products.
FTFY.
this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2025
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Massive X data leak affects over 200 million bots.
Thoughts and prayers
this leak has proven in the past to be fatally dangerous to anonymous activists fighting tyrant governments all around the world. let's hope it does not fall into the wrong hands
If you use anything but TOR together with spoofed VPNs for "activism" against a government that would jail/kill you, you are being reckless.
If you use X for your activism, you're not an activist you're a fed honeypot.
It's not realistic to expect your average civic minded person to also have such operational securitt. Instead the bad actors who threaten them should found, exposed, dismantled, persecuted with extreme prejudice
Imagine being stupid enough to use x.com for your activism 🙄
It fell into the wrong hands 3 years ago. If those people failed to recognize the danger they put themselves in by continuing to use the platform they are shit out of luck cause Musk will never take responsibility.
lmaoooo
He sent his tech bros in to fix the database. Now they'll use the same skills to fix the SS databases.
I think they mean 10 million users, 30 million abandoned accounts, and 160 million bots.
Seems like a dedicated person might be able to prove that. Go through the available data and see what % of leaked accounts actually point to a real person, or even a unique person. If it's mostly bots you'd see that pretty quick
Check how many accounts pushing republican propaganda only post during St. Petersburg business hours... 🙃
This is why I gtfo when Elon took over. I knew something like this would happen.
Exactly this. We knew that everything would get shaky after he fired all those people and a data leak is the consequence
This vulnerability made it possible to collect user data simply by knowing someone’s email address or phone number.
Another example of where it pays off to have separate email addresses/aliases for every website/service you use.
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Quick everyone do their banking on it!
Someone should check the email and phone number of Adrian Dittman to see if they match Elon's. Idiots can argue that it isn't Elon despite speech pattern evidence, but it's harder to argue when both of them share the same identifying info.
I thought he fessed up to that
Who is/was Adrian Dittman? Out of the loop of Twitter drama.
Someone Musk made up to simply glaze himself on twitter.
So his version of HitlerPig's John Baron?
i am pretty sure Dittman is a real person https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/05/bad-news-for-adrian-dittman-elon-musk-truthers/
Yeah, I know there was a story in that Spectator magazine. I'm still not sold. Dittman said way too many stupid things that point to him being Elon.
So what is that, like 6 or 7 people?
A sock for every puppet.
If it had happened now, that figure might be accurate. However, this was originally exploited in 2022, so it's probably pretty bad.
It also includes the people that deleted their Twitter accounts following the acquisition. I'm one of those people and I'm especially annoyed because I only used that blasted app only to register to some giveaways when I was in middle school. I have since discontinued that email account, but still.
That’s like, 400 actual non-bot accounts. Nobody is safe anymore!
Or this could be publicity stunt "look how many users we have, many users, beutifull users like never before, nobody knew how many users as there".
Fucking heros
lol
I still can't believe Xerox still has that many users
In July 2022, Twitter confirmed that someone had exploited the vulnerability before it could be fixed. “After reviewing a sample of the data offered for sale, we confirmed that a malicious party had taken advantage of the problem before it was addressed,” Twitter stated at the time.
lol
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