Twitter hackers stole more than 200 million emails, says security researcher – Bitcoin (BTC/USD), Ethereum (ETH/USD)

Twitter suffered a data breach where hackers stole over 200 million email addresses and published them on an online hacking forum, according to a security researcher.

What happened: Details of the hacking were shared by Alon GalCo-founder and CTO of Israeli cybersecurity surveillance firm Hudson Rock in a LinkedIn post first mentioned on Reuters.

Gal said the leaked email database was “highly circulating” and contained “235,000,000 unique records of Twitter users and their email addresses and will unfortunately lead to a lot of hacking, targeted phishing and doxxing.”

Twitter did not immediately respond to Benzinga’s request for comment.

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Why it matters: Gal described it as one of the “most significant” leaks he’s seen, adding that the leak would be used to target cryptocurrency Twitter accounts ether‘s ETH/USD characters in the name.

He said other adverse effects include hacking of high profile and political accounts and attacks on accounts with good usernames.

Not up to date? The hacking could have happened as early as 2021, before that Tesla Inc chairman Elon Musk bought Twitter, according to Reuters.

The extent of the breach is not yet clear, as previous accounts put the breach at 400 million email addresses.

In July 2020, a Twitter internal tool was used in a notorious case Bitcoin BTC/USD Fraud led to the compromise of 100 high profile users including Musk, President Joe Bidenand Bill Gates.

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