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  This happened over a year ago.
context: Everyone else get the youvebeenpwnd email then? >
  
  I got a Firefox Monitor email even tho I don't have an account >
  
  I also got the Firefox Monitor email, but I got an account. >
  
  It might be from a deactivated account but I thought they delete those after it is inactive for a period of time? How can I be in the leaked list then... When I reset password with this email no account seems to be registered they said. Very strange! >
  
  The data breach happened in 2021. Did you have your account then? >
  
  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 ;_; >
  
  I got $5. Wtf. >
  
  You guys got money?? >
  
  I got identity theft protection through checks notes …Equifax >
  
  18 months of it baby!
  ...my credit score is 825 and that's what I got... >
  
  Oh no not my email that’s been in 700 other data breaches. >
  
  I got a letter in the mail the other day from a company I've never heard of notifying me that they had a data breach and my information was compromised. >
  
  I got a letter from the government the other day
  I opened and read it, it said they were suckers >
  
  They wanted me for their army or whatever >
  
  Picture me giving a damn - I said, "Never." >
  
  Here is a land that never gave a damn >
  
  Wtf are you guys talking about >
  
  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.
  Edit: Further investigation shows that the only temporal milestone we have is the claim by the person selling that information that they used an exploit in 2021. I shouldn't have to point out how clearly they are not a reputable source. >
  
  Yes. The notification from Have I Been Pwned that I was one of them. >
  
  That is not a source we can vet. You could just as easily have said "yes, it's what I think happened". >
  
  I looked through one of the haveibeenpwned emails, and neither it nor the website seems to provide any source other than the seller's own claim. As far as I can tell it's just a conservative estimate of the earliest possible date for the theft. >
  
  Not earliest, latest. Per the hacker's own text, the problem was patched early 2022. So the data is from before that. >
  
  "It may have taken place as early as 2021, which was before Elon Musk took over ownership of the company last year." >
  
  This needs to be upvoted more. Love or hate Musk, this doesn’t really have anything to do with him. >
  
  It makes him even more of an idiot for buying such a poorly-run company in the first place (for way over market price). >
  
  Classic Reddit Spinzone!
  No matter what happens, eLoN bAd >
  
  Fuck Elon. Why are you even defending him? >
  
  I’m not, idgaf about him.  Making fun of y’all that want to blame him for something that happened to Twitter in 2021, and then when that’s pointed out you all still triple down like dumb fucks >
  
  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. >
  
  No the article is being reposted with a fairly consistent interval across all the large subreddits. >
  
  Approximate number more like 235 million.  Twitter is doing so well...