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  Hell, without a security team I'm surprised they even found this out.
context: Great, so I’ll be receiving more spam emails. >
  
  I'd be more concerned about the increase in attempts at identity theft everyone will see from all of Twitter's data breaches, including this one. Personal details were leaked for 5.4mil twitter users just months ago, and now this. Twitter accounts should be toxic as nuclear waste to people now. >
  
  Honestly at this point like, why tho? Between  equifax and all the other sites and shit that have leaked my info, theres nothing twitter could leak that has not already leaked, apples private relay service came a decade too late and theres nothing i know like that for phone / sms. 
  I just treat those as public knowledge at this point. >
  
  Now that brought up Equifax, I'm reminded of how angry I am at how badly the media swept the Equifax breach under the rug. >
  
  But hey, I just got my settlement check for a whole $22!! >
  
  Damn. Mine was $12 ;_; >
  
  This is shocking given how well managed this company is. >
  
  So well managed I'd guess they didn't know they were hacked until this guy told them. >
  
  Probably the skeleton crew they have left running the actual operations of the company is so overburdoned they are just half-assed juggling several tasks instead of doing a single task competently.  
  And they can do this "fast and loose" to keep the company operational.  But get ready to major security breaches and constant stream of expensive high-profile blunders. >
  
  This hack happened before Musk bought the company. >
  
  Do you have a source for that claim? The article linked to this post only says "It may have taken place as early as 2021" - they provide no conclusive date. >
  
  Approximate number more like 235 million.  Twitter is doing so well... >
  
  Isn't that like all the users? Lol..that's a shitload >
  
  There's a lot more accounts on Twitter than people.  It was estimated about 200 million actual users worldwide, and about 400 million active accounts at the time Musk took over.  The number of inactive accounts that were real people or bots would then be higher.  
  What types of accounts specifically got targeted is up for debate, if random between everyone, targeted active users, etc. >
  
  Cool, so when is the class action lawsuit? >
  
  30 years from now and you'll get $3 but only if you opt in yesterday. >
  
  $3? Thats lucky, its more like $0.50 >
  
  Surprisingly a few years back I got a whole $12 from a class action lawsuit against Sony from anyone that had an original PS3 because they removed Linux support in an update.
  Definitely better than the settlement I got from the government after they leaked everyone's private information. Anyone that enlisted after the early 2000s or so had their social security number and other identifying info leaked by the third party that handled background checks, and the settlement was basically "Enter a bunch of identifying information here including you social security number and a third party will hold that info and let you know if someone tries to steal your identity." Thanks guys, I totally trust you not to let it leak this time... >
  
  It looks like this event took place at 2021 which was before Elon owned Twitter, just for the record. Elon's an ass but it doesn't appear this is under his leadership. >
  
  There's probably others under his leadership.  Twitter has (had) a very responsive and robust back end, but securing data was always a downfall for the company.  They've been really, really, really bad at it relative to their peers. >
  
  I very, very much doubt they redid the entire architecture between November and December.  They did shut off some data centers though. >
  
  For end users the back end is a lot more obscured than the front end.  So we can’t really say what was and wasn’t done.  Given typical dev times though, not to mention twitters legal requirements before making any changes, it seems unlikely to me they were able to do anything substantial.  
  You’ve got project planning, development, testing, legal sign offs, and deployment all within 9 weeks.  Oh and dealing with staff changes, elons demands, on boarding for their new lead dev (who since quit, saying everything was unworkable), musk getting up to speed to request work, oh and migrating from the old systems.
  I just don’t see it. >
  
  I bet they just used ChatGPT. >
  
  I'm Assembling a Team >
  
  Oh no not my email that’s been in 700 other data breaches. >
  
  To be fair, Elon (no, I’m not a fan) wasn’t in charge during the hack. “…the bug was first discovered in January 2022 but was quickly fixed, adding that there was no evidence suggesting that personal data was compromised as a result of the vulnerability.” (Source) >
  
  But that doesn't fit the popular narrative >
  
  Well he's been pouting about Twitter ceaselessly for a year--I can't care any more. Get the Mars baby wannabe off the fucking screens now pls >
  
  So glad I refused and continue to refuse to ever make a Twitter account. Social Media is a societal mistake >
  
  
  Social Media is a societal mistake
  
  Pushing back on this. Social Media is great; YouTube is social media. I'd argue that in terms of media production and distribution, IMO it's (YT) hands down the most pivotal thing to come to our civilization since the computer. 
  The true mistake with social media was trying to do short form social media. Only having 120 characters to say something and absolutely busted conversation threads; is the mistake. It's too easy to say something stupid and wrong in 120 characters, but if you want to refute it you'd need 10-20x that many characters.
  Edit: Engagement algorithms are close 2nd for the biggest mistake with social media. >
  
  "Social media" is also very broad. If Reddit is social media then so is every internet discussion forum to ever exist. >
  
  The line is very fine. I'd say, based on the current state of things, that you need to satisfy a couple of requirements.
  To be social media you must:
  1) Allow users to post content freely and open to everyone (ie: minimal moderation)
  2) There must be a mechanism for other's to interact with, reply to, and share the content to others
  3) Visibility of content is somewhat dynamic. This could be controlled by algorithms but could also be controlled by users in some fashion.
  Taking these requirements into account; social media has been around for awhile. Old style forum setups, like SomethingAwful, were definitely social media. I think anyone that was involved in the earlier days of SA would agree that when posts got traction there, impact of numerous users could be felt outside the forum -- similar to the kind of effects (though larger), you see from Twitter and other places these days. >
  
  Can we all agree: Elon is not a genius. >
  
  If Elon never made a Twitter account, people would historically compare him as a CEO to Steve Jobs. Now that people know the truth, he'll more likely be compared to the My Pillow Guy. 
  A fool speaks while a wise man listens. >
  
  “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
  Except that if he had remained silent, people would’ve thought he was a genius. >
  
  Except if he was not an edgy meme-lord, he wouldn't have a cult following, and Tesla stock wouldn't have gotten as high as it did, then his net worth wouldn't have gotten as high as it did, and also he wouldn't have been able to dump $40bn worth of stock on his investors. >
  
  You may very well be right.  We'll never know what the alternate timeline looks like where he could keep his dumber thoughts to himself, unfortunately. >
  
  Didn't I see this headline yesterday? Or like, a week ago? >
  
  Yes, but those articles were moreso about someone offering the data on the dark web and there wasn't any actual proof that he had it.
  Now Twitter has officially notified users as required by law meaning they've verified the claim is legit. >
  
  Anything besides email addresses? >
  
  Exactly why I use a bullshit email address for social media accounts. >
  
  Deleted my account last year. I wonder if that includes removed accounts. >
  
  I got Kevin O'Leary's phone # out of it >
  
  I’m hootin’ and hollerin’ >
  
  As usual no one read the article, which does mention this is an old incident happened in 2021 before Musk took over. Im no Musk fanboy but this is not on him. >
  
  Good thing I never created a Twitter account in my life >
  
  My account has been exploding with random new Asian accounts following me all of a sudden. I’ve been enjoying the train wreck but I might bounce just for that. It’s all spam. >
  
  Well, there goes another one of my throwaway email accounts. >
  
  I don't see what the problem is. It couldn't mean any worse than Musk having access to all those emails. >
  
  "It may have taken place as early as 2021, which was before Elon Musk took over ownership of the company last year." >
  
  Yesterday I received 1200 spam emails in the span of 2 hours including an attempt to hack my PayPal. Think I now have a solid idea what caused this, thanks Twitter! >
  
  Yea right,it's an euphemism for Elon sold them >
  
  Yeah.  IDK.  Wouldn’t surprise me if Musk was actually selling our data for profit, then claiming hacking. >
  
  Another brilliant move from Twitter CEO Seymore Stink. >
  
  I'm sure Elon has his best man on it. >
  
  Saving money by laying off your entire staff is like losing weight by having all your vital organs removed. >
  
  Journalists contacted Twitter for comment, but their public relations department had been fired. >
  
  This is what happens when you remove a security team because of "profitability" >
  
  Twitter Servers go brrrrrrrrrrrr >
  
  To anyone whose recently given Twitter your credit card information in order to purchase a blue checkmark: HAHAHAHAHAHA. >
  
  I 2nd this >
  
  if youre using your real contacts for social media youre doing it wrong >
  
  This one is really proving how few read the articles and just jump to whatever their bias is. >
  
  Doesnt everyone have an email account for separate things?? Like I have one that I only use for financial websites and apps, one for everyday communications, and then another one for all other websites and apps. I almost never get spam in my financial or personal use email. >
  
  I’m glad Elmo fired those overpaid security experts >
  
  All the more reason to leave Twitter people. >
  
  Musk: "I support the current thing."  
  "Encryption?" 
  Musk: "No."  
  
  
  There were no clues to the identity or location of the hacker or hackers behind the breach. It may have taken place as early as 2021, which was before Elon Musk took over ownership of the company last year.  
  
  Shucks.  Oh well, nevertheless. >
  
  Boycott Musk and Twitter >
  
  Twitter no longer have the means of preventing break-in to their servers with all the layoffs.  People may seriously need to consider finding alternative site if they haven't done so already. >
  
  Oh no! I guess there will be one more spam email to delete soon. >
  
  Good job twitter now my burner email is out there >
  
  I hope it's all the blue check people >
  
  "Hacked" and "leaked". Sure. I'm sure Musk, who's currently doing everything he can to make Twitter more profitable, would never sell his users' data for a quick buck or anything. >
  
  Well that can’t be. I’m a Software Engineer but all of the Elon Stans who have never written a line of code told me they were perfectly good with 75% less staff. They told me that the site is better and all of those people were dead weight.
  They couldn’t be wrong. Elon is a genius and by extension everyone smart enough to see he is a genius. >
  
  He should have used his time machine to travel back in time and stop this hack that happened before he bought the company! What a jerk! >
  
  
  ”It may have taken place as early as 2021”
  
  May being the keyword there, but that is doubtful. I have a hard time believing there was a data breach of that magnitude and nobody noticed it until now. Much more likely there was an exploit deployed in the absence of most of Twitter’s Security Engineers. >
  
  This is what happens when you fire your IT Security Team. >
  
  I'm so glad I never had and never will have a Twitter account! >
  
  Surprised it took this long, honestly. >
  
  It was only a matter of time. The moment the Musk takeover started going forward I changed all my info on my profile because these massive leaks were not an IF but a WHEN. >
  
  200 million users emails that have already been on the internet. >
  
  Meh. Everyone has my email. My spam folder proves it... >
  
  Woah email addresses? Oh no >
  
  The developers warned against this and Elon didn't listen.  I'm suing and will let you know how it goes.  I'm living in fear that my information is stolen now since they didn't protect it. >
  
  I thought Elon was doing programing to fix this after the last time? Or so he said. >
  
  This breech is from the last time. >
  
  Great, nothing of importance was lost, as I got off that shit a long time ago. >
  
  Suggestion, use email routing and use an individual email for each account that way if theirs a breach and you start getting spam you can kill the email and replace it.
  Personally I use iCloud+ hide my email however you may have a different service you use. Once your main email is on an active list you’ll get spam for a long time, however using this method you can at least slow down the spam as eventually your email will be lost from spammers active lists and only the rare few using old lists will make contact. >
  
  Oh no! I'm going to get spam mail now! /s >
  
  If you deleted your Twitter account would they still have your email on file? >
  
  I don’t see how this could be a bad thing >
  
  Will it affect me if I deleted my account around a year ago? >
  
  Oh no, now they will know about all the weird porn I watch! >
  
  Must be that freedom he was touting >
  
  This is what happens when a “business guru” takes over a company and decides to cut Cyber Security funds.  Pretty sure all Twitter records have been compromised and by multiple actors/groups. >
  
  You should be giving him more credit if you think he built a time machine to go back to 2021 to insert this vulnerability in a company he didn't even own. >
  
  To an APT (advanced persistent threat) the news that a major company going through massive layoffs across the board is a dog whistle.  In this environment you do not cut cyber security funds or personal. >
  
  It's bizarre that misleading headlines like this start popping up about anyone perceived to be "anti-left" whenever they become a threat.
  Reuters used to be great, it's a shame that they've started going down this road.
  This happened well before Elon took over. But just from this headline alone, people are going to be talking about how his "poor management" led to 200m email addresses being leaked. >
  
  Where the class action lawyers at? >
  
  One user compromised for every thousand dollars Felon Skum has lost on his endeavors. How appropriate. >
  
  The rank incompetence multiplied by the staggering self righteous ego maniacal bullshit is next level. God tier ruination. >
  
  Better Twitter than SpaceX >
  
  Gwynne Shotwell has taken over most of his duties at SpaceX since he joined Twitter and things have been running more smoothly. >
  
  Hey guys, I'm on Twitter. It's on my resume too. >
  
  But your resume isn't being sold right now to criminals. Your email address may be. Now hopefully you are computer savvy enough not to get phished. But not everyone is. >
  
  That's very true. >
  
  
  Reuters could not independently verify the data on the forum was authentic and came from Twitter
  
  Top notch journalism.  It's just a list of email addresses? >
  
  I'm more curious about how many ransomware attacks Twitter has now had to pay out.  I'd imagine with someone having as deep of pockets as the current owner, it's got to be a crown jewel target for all of the ransomware groups. >
  
  So what’s Elon looking for? >
  
  “Why waste money employing lot developers when few developers do trick” >
  
  if you're still on twitter... what the hell did you expect was going to happen when he fired most of the staff? >
  
  Are we going to get a "Twitter file" on it? >
  
  Hacked or info sold to 3rd party for quick cash flow?? >
  
  I closed my account when the security team was let go/quit. Really curious if I'm now part of that list.