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Russian Hacker Selling Information of 32 Million Twitter Accounts, Report Says (zdnet.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the time-to-change-your-password dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The hacker who has links to the recent Myspace, LinkedIn, and Tumblr data breaches, is claiming to have obtained a database of millions of Twitter accounts. The data reportedly includes addresses, usernames, and plain-text passwords of 379 million Twitter accounts. The hacker, Tessa88, wants 10 bitcoins, or about $5,820 for the cache. On Wednesday, LeakedSource claimed that the real number of accounts was just under 33 million, which is more than 10 percent of Twitter's monthly active accounts. This follows the hacking of Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest accounts.

2 of 54 comments (clear)

  1. This could be a scam by tangent3 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Someone claims this is a scam - the accounts were actually sourced from tumblr and linkedin leaks
    https://jesterscourt.cc/member...

  2. Re:Why do Slashdot users continually defend hacker by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    I see exactly what you're doing, and it's quite obvious.

    In the space of an hour (at 3 in the morning Slashdot time mind you), eight posts by ACs were made which were all off-topic shitposts, and the SOLE comment (rather than the alleged plural; "posts") claiming he should be punished was saying he should be executed. Hacking a social media account is not and never will be worthy of the death penalty or even a ruler across the knuckles. After all those posts, you MAGICALLY come along and start pointing and saying "Look! Slashdot defends hackers!"

    I would not be surprised in the least if you made those comments yourself, knowing they would get downmodded for being irrelevant and childish, just so you could scream from the rooftops about how slashdot "defends hackers".