A self-proclaimed data enthusiast calling themselves ‘ThinkingOne’ has made a huge database containing 201 million pieces of user data from X freely available. The data is said to have come from two previous leaks and includes email addresses, locations and profile data of users of the social media platform.
Thoughts and prayers
this leak has proven in the past to be fatally dangerous to anonymous activists fighting tyrant governments all around the world. let’s hope it does not fall into the wrong hands
If you use anything but TOR together with spoofed VPNs for “activism” against a government that would jail/kill you, you are being reckless.
If you use X for your activism, you’re not an activist you’re a fed honeypot.
It’s not realistic to expect your average civic minded person to also have such operational securitt. Instead the bad actors who threaten them should found, exposed, dismantled, persecuted with extreme prejudice
Imagine being stupid enough to use x.com for your activism 🙄
It fell into the wrong hands 3 years ago. If those people failed to recognize the danger they put themselves in by continuing to use the platform they are shit out of luck cause Musk will never take responsibility.
This is why I gtfo when Elon took over. I knew something like this would happen.
Exactly this. We knew that everything would get shaky after he fired all those people and a data leak is the consequence
He sent his tech bros in to fix the database. Now they’ll use the same skills to fix the SS databases.
lmaoooo
This vulnerability made it possible to collect user data simply by knowing someone’s email address or phone number.
Another example of where it pays off to have separate email addresses/aliases for every website/service you use.
I think it pays even more to not use X
That’s re-victimization. People do people stuff, like using social networks. Furthermore, the database probably goes as far as previous to being bought, enshittified and renamed by Musk. So… you’re not being fair.
I think there’s a fine line between victim-blaming and identifying an object lesson. We all understand why people started using twitter, and people are creatures of habit. But this is an example of why people should stop using twitter. We’re not saying “this is your fault because you’re stupid if you’re still on twitter.” The message is “this should serve as a wake up call to anyone stuck in their habits.”
100%
That’s re-victimization. People do people stuff, like using social networks.
Giving one’s real name and real information to a social network who is intending to track everything one does or says and the people one does or says it with is idiocy and it has never not been.
People do people stuff like not listening to people who have constantly been telling them not to push the button.
People stuff also includes continuing to use these horror networks for years after knowing full well they shouldn’t.
I’m fairy sure the guy above said “use X” not use social media. X is a particularly shitty platform.
The actual data compromise happened sometime before July 2022, months before Elon’s purchase of Twitter happened. Telling people they shouldn’t have registered their real phone numbers to Twitter in 2015 or whatever isn’t really a helpful argument to make today.
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Quick everyone do their banking on it!
Someone should check the email and phone number of Adrian Dittman to see if they match Elon’s. Idiots can argue that it isn’t Elon despite speech pattern evidence, but it’s harder to argue when both of them share the same identifying info.
I thought he fessed up to that
Who is/was Adrian Dittman? Out of the loop of Twitter drama.
Someone Musk made up to simply glaze himself on twitter.
So his version of HitlerPig’s John Baron?
i am pretty sure Dittman is a real person https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/05/bad-news-for-adrian-dittman-elon-musk-truthers/
Yeah, I know there was a story in that Spectator magazine. I’m still not sold. Dittman said way too many stupid things that point to him being Elon.
That’s like, 400 actual non-bot accounts. Nobody is safe anymore!
So what is that, like 6 or 7 people?
It also includes the people that deleted their Twitter accounts following the acquisition. I’m one of those people and I’m especially annoyed because I only used that blasted app only to register to some giveaways when I was in middle school. I have since discontinued that email account, but still.
A sock for every puppet.
Or this could be publicity stunt “look how many users we have, many users, beutifull users like never before, nobody knew how many users as there”.
How many of them are Elmo’s alt-accounts?
Yes
I still can’t believe Xerox still has that many users
lol
In July 2022, Twitter confirmed that someone had exploited the vulnerability before it could be fixed. “After reviewing a sample of the data offered for sale, we confirmed that a malicious party had taken advantage of the problem before it was addressed,” Twitter stated at the time.
lol
