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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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1 billion citizens in China: Hackers want their data captured
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As ZDF.de reports, a hacker in China is said to have captured the data of 1 billion Chinese citizens. Apparently the data was put up for sale. Whether they are real is still unconfirmed. According to ZDF.de, a hacker himself stated that he stole the data records of 1 billion citizens in China. As a small proof, he is said to have published 750.000 data sets on the Internet. It should then be possible to find information such as name, cell phone number, ID card number, address and birthday for each data record. Apparently the entire data was offered for about 200.000 euros on the Darknet...

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