Twitter (X) Hit by Data Leak of 2.8B Users – Allegedly an Insider Job

everfrustrated · 2025-03-29T18:20:38 1743272438

Article itself says

>Their theory that a disgruntled employee leaked the data during the layoffs remains unconfirmed, and there’s no concrete evidence to support it; it is only a plausible hypothesis given the timing and internal mess at X.

renewiltord · 2025-03-29T18:31:16 1743273076

This is just information that was publicly visible previously. Someone could see almost all of this on old archive.org pages. The current UI hides some of it but it’s not like this is secret.

robertlagrant · 2025-03-29T18:11:53 1743271913

Tl;dr:

- probably all the data isn't from X

- the data seems to be all public - e.g.

   - user ID and screen name

   - number of followers

   - number of tweets

   - source of last Tweet (e.g. TweetDeck)

   - location and timezone

   - profile is protected or verified

I'm not sure that headline is very sensible to propagate.

ironhaven · 2025-03-29T18:27:57 1743272877

The posting client was removed from the UI and has not been public for a while

jmclnx · 2025-03-29T18:13:42 1743272022

Oh No, what will a bot do ? Maybe we can find out what percentage of these users are either bots or an ID for use by AI.

I wonder if the public is fully insensitive to these leaks now that we seem to have a big leak every other day.

ohgr · 2025-03-29T18:16:47 1743272207

Place bet: Musk investigates while shutting down any data protection agencies.

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