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Twitter Hack: 400 million records stolen?
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The company Hudson Rocks has spread the news on Twitter that a user offers 400 million data sets from Twitter users in a forum on the dark web. The tricky thing: there should also be information from prominent politicians. The company Hudson Rocks, a company for cybercrime investigations, has published a screenshot of an underground forum as evidence: the user "Ryushi" offers in his post 400 million data sets that he claims to have ended up on Twitter. This should contain the Twitter name, e-mail and telephone number for each user. Actually not particularly critical data. However, in…

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Mastodon as a Twitter alternative?
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Mastodon has quickly become the go-to place for many in recent weeks who have decided to leave Twitter. The open-source decentralized platform has many benefits, and the growing popularity will hopefully lead to additional features and functionality as the open-source platform continues to mature. Still, those who join Mastodon should not consider the platform as an equivalent replacement for Twitter and should be aware of the special characteristics of the Fediverse. Each instance is managed by an administrator who has control over the infrastructure and the software running on the servers. That…

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Hack: Offered contact details from 5,4 million Twitter accounts
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According to the website 9to5mac.com, there is said to have been a hack on Twitter. In this way, contact details of 5,4 million Twitter accounts are said to have been lost. In a hacker forum, the data was now offered for just $30.000. However, the authenticity of the data has not been fully confirmed. A Twitter data breach allowed an attacker to gain access to the contact details of 5,4 million accounts for a hacker. According to 9to5mac.com, Twitter has probably confirmed the vulnerability that allowed the data to be extracted. The data – the Twitter handles with phone numbers and email addresses…

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