What you need to know. More than 200 million twitter accounts, including email addresses, were leaked this week, raising privacy and security concerns What happened in the x data breach
55k Twitter accounts leaked
In march 2025, reports surfaced regarding a large dataset containing x (formerly twitter) user information that had become available on various online hacking forums and dark web marketplaces
While initial descriptions highlighted a significant volume of data, including 2.8 billion x user ids and personal details for over 200 million users, further analysis.
The latest tweets from @hypex A massive data leak, potentially the largest social media breach ever, reportedly exposes 400gb of data from roughly 2.87 billion twitter (x) user accounts. Massive twitter (x) profile data leak exposes details of 2.8 billion users Alleged insider leak surfaces with no official response from the company
A data leak involving a whopping 2.87 billion twitter (x) users has surfaced on the infamous breach forums. Hackread reports that x, formerly known as twitter, had over 2.8 billion individuals' profile data exposed on breach forums by the threat actor thinkingone, who claimed the information to have been stolen by a former employee amid widespread layoffs at the u.s Hackers on the illicit marketplace breach forums have disseminated a massive dataset allegedly containing 2.9 billion twitter (x) user records Although most of the data in a leak is public, cybercriminals can still find many uses for it
A threat actor hiding under the moniker thinkingone claims it obtained a massive new leak, the largest social media breach ever. the hacker.
