On Wednesday, Twitter acknowledged that it was aware of reports of its users’ data being sold.
He also added in a statement posted on his website’s “Privacy” page that the sale of the tweets took place over the Internet.
An internal investigation by the microblogging site concluded that there was no evidence that the data sold online was the result of Bluebird’s “exploitation of electronic systems vulnerabilities”.
The investigation concluded that the data sold was part of data already available to the public through various sources on the Internet.
400 million users
He pointed to a news report published in December 2022 that revealed that someone had accessed 400 million users’ data, including phone numbers and emails, in accordance with a security vulnerability discovered earlier that year.
As in November of that year, the report stated that Twitter user data had been leaked to the Internet.
And in January 2023, Twitter tracked an attempt to sell the data of 200 million users, and this prompted it to launch a comprehensive investigation, which concluded that the data of 5.4 million accounts in the leaked accounts were duplicated during two leaks in November and August 2022.
In all cases, the information leak did not include user passwords.
Twitter said it was talking to data protection authorities in various countries about the matter.
