comment: >
  
  I wouldn’t be surprised a post-Musk leak occurs but this isn’t it, save your laughter
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... >
  
  This happened over a year ago. >
  
  Wasn't there a law passed not too long ago that companies had to notify users of a data breach within a set amount of time? >
  
  Amount of time from becoming aware of the breach.
  Just did GDPR training at work, you have to notify the government within 72 hours on the clock (no excuses for it being last thing on a Friday, it has to be there by the same time on Monday or you get a big fine) for any breaches with risk, and notify the affected person ASAP for anything high-risk. (Sending spam doesn't count as high-risk, that's just an irritant, so just phone numbers or email addresses only need to be logged on the internal register) >
  
  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... >
  
  
  Thanks guys, I totally trust you not to let it leak this time...
  
  Well in the wise words of a famous orator of our generation:
  "There's an old saying in Tennessee, I know it's in Texas, it's probably in Tennessee. That... fool me once.... Shame on... Shame on...you.................. Yafool me, can't get fooled again."
  -George W. Bush, President of the United States of America >
  
  Someone pointed out the other day that a sound bite of Dubya saying "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me" could easily be cut down just to "shame on me", which would've been political suicide.  Stumbling over that just created another Bushism, and saved him from a coffin nail.  Heh. >
  
  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
  Edit: Even if it was under Elon's leadership, find me a major country or corporation that has not suffered a data leak at one point in time that is not Google. It happens to everyone. And honestly, CEOs are not who should be considered responsible for data breaches. That's a CTO or CSOs job. Let's bitch at Elon for things he can control, like not paying employees properly and allowing hate crimes on Twitter, Not for things he doesn't directly control, like data breaches. Honestly the only direct control Elon has overdata breaches is hiring and firing security members... Elon probably couldn't even put parameters on HTML input boxes himself, much less secure an entire company is back end. It's kind of like when people get mad at him for a rocket exploding. He didn't build the rocket. He just paid for it.
  Edit 2:  people seem to have a problem understanding the difference between being responsible for something and being accountable for something. Elon is accountable for anything that happens to the company he owns while he owns it. Just like any CEO. But just because he is accountable for the problem and is the one who needs to assure that the problem is adequately fixed, does not mean that he is the one responsible for the problem. Elon is not a developer. Digital security is incredibly difficult, and Elon isn't an expert. >
  
  Reddit won’t let facts stop it from some good ol’ sensationalism >
  
  Dude…. Scrolling through someone’s history for a gotcha moment is pretty fucking lame. >
  
  "wow, you called me out for bad shit, but you're the lame one for checking" >
  
  Its the idea that he was motivated enough to dig up something to shit on the guy. Pretty lame in my books. >
  
  Agreed, it wasn't even relevant to the discussion except to throw a mudball >
  
  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 >
  
  Only emails? Lol. When the US government was hacked in 2015, they stole 5.6 million sets of fingerprints. >
  
  wasnt this a story like two weeks ago? >
  
  Read the article for fuck sake. It happened before Elon took over. It may have happened as early as 2021. >
  
  This is Reddit. No one actually reads the articles. >
  
  This is the exact same topic from a week ago. The hack occurred 1 year before Elon Musk bought Twitter and was advertised on December 24th of last year. You will keep seeing the same thing reposted over and over because it's easy engagement and easy karma farming. >
  
  This one is really proving how few read the articles and just jump to whatever their bias is. >
  
  I think this is indicative of the social media AIs ability to keep us scrolling - and how wildly successful they are.  The AI’s job is to keep us scrolling, and to get us to engage in conversation, because that means we will stay on the site/app, and it doesn’t know or care what measures it has to take in order for that to happen.  It just wants to improve in its ability to deliver content that will keep us here.  (Don’t fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing AIs - they’re not villains, they’re just components fulfilling their programming.)
  Unwittingly, the AI is making us content critics with the emotional intelligence of a toddler late to nap.  It is the most successful at its job when users find a headline that resonates with them emotionally, which makes them engage.  
  Think about what that might be doing to our psyches for a second.  It is delivering content customized for us, which probably means we live in a content bubble of our own creation (we show the AI what we want to see and what increases our engagement), with like-minded individuals echoing our biases back to us, which bolsters our passion and increases engagement… but it also means that we may never see a dissenting opinion.  When we do, those people are downvoted and pressured by the community to bend to the bias of that community.  
  I’ve actually seen people become dumbfounded when a real-life conversation causes a realization that not everyone shares the same opinion.   
  I think this is an effect of social media app usage… and it’s kinda scary.
  It’s my belief that a lot of psychological damage is being done because of this…. If we are shown content, repeatedly, where our bias is the “correct” one to fit into the community, then we might start to think that everyone thinks the same way we do.  And if this happens over and over and over again, we might just start thinking that our every little opinion is the most important - we NEED to have our opinion heard, because it is the right one, and fuck everyone else, because I’m right.  
  And we just might be seeing that outcome coming to fruition in the people who don’t read articles, but still think their opinion needs to be heard. >
  
  Exactly why I use a bullshit email address for social media accounts. >
  
  The last line of the article reads:
  “It may have taken place as early as 2021, which was before Elon Musk took over ownership of the company last year.” >
  
  My gmail is already at max capacity😂🤣😂 >
  
  I bet they just used ChatGPT. >
  
  I'm Assembling a Team >
  
  You crazy bitch, I’m in. >
  
  Aren't this like 1 year old news? >
  
  This probably explains why I won 12 pairs of Airpods yesterday. >
  
  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. >
  
  So glad I refused and continue to refuse to ever make a Twitter account. Social Media is a societal mistake >
  
  Algorithms, dude. Algorithms ruined it. >
  
  Capitalism ruined it. We took the greatest communication platform of all time (the internet) and then weaponized the people trying to communicate against each other so that some could profit.   
  This has had an insanely destructive consequence for the world, to the point that we can barely even acknowledge or understand the full extent of the problem right now. >
  
  Why is someone profiting off people communicating bad? Servers, the electricity to run them, and the space to store them aren’t free. >
  
  Paying operating costs is different than incentivizing small numbers of shareholders to do whatever it takes to maximize their own benefit. >
  
  So the hack happened before Elon bought Twitter. 
  No, Elon is not off the hook here. This is his liability now. And this is another feather in his (dunce) cap. He shelled out $44B without checking if there are any red flags like 200 million accounts being hacked a few months back. I think caveat emptor applies even to billionaires. >
  
  Mozilla just sent me an email notifying me that my email was found in the leaked data. >
  
  But fucking go off louisiana, I guess..
  We need to verify our age with our license or ID to watch porn now >
  
  Just my email address - my email address is on so many spam lists it is just a drop in the bucket.  And so far everything tied to that address has 2FA. >
  
  good thing i don’t use my personal email for that >
  
  Nice! On social media sites, I use a dedicated email in case I need to turn it into a throwaway email account.  Looks like this is to be the case again. >
  
  I mean fuck Twitter and all but I'm not gonna lose sleep over my email that is probably on hundreds of leaked lists. 
  Funnily enough I received my 5 dollar Equifax check yesterday and I'm sure that makes up for the much more valuable data that they lost. >
  
  Never saw THAT one coming... >
  
  And the clown circus rumbles on >
  
  I feel bad for those 53 million that weren't victims of equifax. >
  
  Bot@yahoo.com= 140,000 of them >
  
  Just delete Twitter, it’s over… >
  
  There’s no value in stealing data from Twitter, the value would be in gaining access to the accounts.  Just drive that garbage site into the ground with spam that they don’t have the man-power to filter. >
  
  What a wonderful time to have never created a Twitter account >
  
  Absolutely nothing predicts a massive attack more than destabilization >
  
  The breach happened in 2021. It's been updated to a forum now. >
  
  That Hyperloop is going to be built any day now! >
  
  Oh sweet, even more spam to filter! >
  
  is this why i got like 300 emails sent to me the other day?? >
  
  Switching to an RSS reader and just adding the nitter feeds of the accounts i used to follow has saved me a ton of headaches >
  
  gonna be funny when they try to sell the one email i signed up for on twitter "bigdaddybonebro@yahoo.com" like 7 years ago. Twitter is such a fucking cesspool. >
  
  That explains the emails I've been getting about an old account trying to log in then. I'm assuming musk fired the security team? >
  
  Just delete Twitter though >
  
  The more surprising thing here is that 200mil people are still on Twitter >
  
  Just got a note from Firefox that my address was one of them. Not really sure what to do however. >
  
  Firefox told me this morning I was a part of it. Yippee. >
  
  It's going well for Musky isn't it >
  
  Shit, Elons security game on his kids name is stronger than he has at Twitter. >
  
  phew, looks like my account was permanently suspended just in time. thanks for the "free speech" elon. >
  
  I am no Tech expert at all, but when he was talking about just unplugging servers and all will be ok, even I knew that’s probably not the best of ideas. Is that why this hack was able to happen? >
  
  Regarding Twitter's data breach:
  Master blaster's quote from the original Mad max movie
  Is adequate for  Mr Musk.
  "You smart,you fix" >
  
  Just got an email from Firefox letting me know. >
  
  Which liberal group will Elon attempt to blame this on? >
  
  Firefox Monitor just let me know my email address was one of them. Wonderful. >
  
  Cant imagine spammers and cyber criminals not having just about every possible email address at this point. >
  
  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. >
  
  Actually, the article makes it clear they have no idea when it happened. It first came to attention in December of 2022 an could have happened any time between early 2021 and then. >
  
  This is going to create a feedback loop of millions of email spam senders sending spam to million of fake email addresses used to creat bot accounts on Twitter… at this rate the internet will be full in… 24hrs. >
  
  My inbox is ready to receive you. >
  
  This is why you delete your Twitter >
  
  Honestly thought I'd get off Twitter due to Musk, didn't think I'd also be doing it because of data theft. >
  
  I recently deleted my twitter account and everything pertaining to it .I did this when he bought twitter. I bailed . I simply cannot stand that man . I don’t like what he’s done to twitter. My question is since I deleted my account on Twitter within the past nine months or so . Do I need to worry about my personal info being hacked because of this ?? >
  
  Who are we kidding. Elon probably sold them and reported it as stolen >
  
  Firefox already warned me. Yeah understaffed Twitter seems to work fine. Time to leave for good. >
  
  Or ya-know Twitler was an idiot and fired, rehired and fired critical people, screwing then out of severance while also talking an insane amount of trash and this is what he gets for being an absolute cunt to people that he didn’t realize could absolutely fuck him over. >
  
  Good thing I never created a Twitter account in my life >
  
  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 guess there will be one more spam email to delete soon. >
  
  Good job twitter now my burner email is out there >
  
  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. >
  
  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. >
  
  It's been random women with names like "Danyell Herson" for like the entirety of my accounts life.  I've blocked more people than I have followed. >
  
  Well, there goes another one of my throwaway email accounts. >
  
  I got Kevin O'Leary's phone # out of it >
  
  I’m hootin’ and hollerin’ >
  
  Oh no, now they will know about all the weird porn I watch! >
  
  Does everyone know that Twitter is an optional site? Like nobody needs to use Twitter if they dislike it’s owner. I’m honestly tired of having to hear about Twitter like it’s not just a news forum site >
  
  Can hackers fuck with billionaires instead of regular people please >
  
  Twitter is the new FB. How are people even still using that platform? Addiction is a bitch. >
  
  Same way people are still using reddit, people find an echo chamber that works for them >
  
  Does this apply to people who have deactivated accounts? >
  
  Depends when you deactivated i suppose. This leak occurred at least a year ago from what I can gather >
  
  Absolute inappropriate that Twitter just hours ago asked me to allow them to harvest even more data for targeted ads on their platform 😂 like BFFR you just had a quarter  BILLION users’ data exfiltrated, you bozos >
  
  Obligatory fuck Twitter >
  
  Big deal, it's just email addresses. Most of those addresses we're already out there on spammer mailing lists. It nearly impossible for an email address to remain private out or the hands of spammer mailing lists >
  
  woo time for some nigerian royalty to email me >
  
  "Leaked" and definitely not sold at a baseball game >
  
  At this point if your still on twitter you’re kind of asking for your info to be leaked >
  
  I just read between the lines, and there's some invisible ink that says "200 million user email addresses were sold and some portion of the revenue was spent hiring a hacker to cover the tracks." >
  
  Thanks for the reminder, just deactivated my account. >
  
  I’m pretty annoyed by this one because I deleted my Twitter account the moment that asshat walked in with the sink. So either they got scraped before he took over, or Twitter doesn’t actually delete your data. 
  Guessing that Twitter doesn’t actually delete your data. >
  
  if youre using your real contacts for social media youre doing it wrong >
  
  Nothing good has ever come from twitter.🤣😂🤭 >
  
  Oh no! Not my email address! >
  
  It looks like Musk did the equivalent of buying a house over a future sinkhole. >
  
  Hahahahaha, Elon was warned repeatedly about some of the things he did to the servers and gutting the Intel and Security Teams. >
  
  Woah email addresses? Oh no >
  
  It might make sense if the breach had anything to do with him, but it happened in January 2022. So maybe you're the simp? >
  
  More likely Musk sold them to make money and made it look like a hack. >
  
  Meh. Everyone has my email. My spam folder proves it... >
  
  It happened in 2021. >
  
  Journalists contacted Twitter for comment, but their public relations department had been fired. >
  
  To anyone whose recently given Twitter your credit card information in order to purchase a blue checkmark: HAHAHAHAHAHA.