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Data alleged to contain the email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users is being given away for free on a hacker forum, reports say.
According to The BBC, the stolen information includes email addresses used to set up accounts, which will worry anonymous users who registered with a sensitive address.
The BBC claimed it has not verified the data, and breaches often turn out to contain duplicate, old or fake information. Twitter has not responded to requests for comment about the breach.
Alon Gal of cyber-crime information firm Hudson Rock, which spotted the leak, said it contained more than 200 million email addresses and was “significant”. Mr Gal told The BBC it would “unfortunately lead to a lot of accounts getting hacked, targeted with phishing, and doxxed”…
