In March 2025, a massive data breach exposed the details of 2.87 billion Twitter (now X) users, marking one of the largest social media leaks in history. The breach, allegedly orchestrated by a disgruntled former employee during mass layoffs, involved 400GB of sensitive user data, including account creation dates, user IDs, screen names, follower counts, and profile descriptions. The leaked dataset also incorporated information from a prior 2023 breach affecting 209 million users, expanding its scope. Despite attempts by the hacker "ThinkingOne" to alert X about the issue, the company reportedly ignored the warnings, prompting the public disclosure of the data. Questions remain about how the dataset reached such a staggering size, far exceeding X's active user base, with speculation pointing to historical or aggregated records.
- Date: Jan 2025
- Domain:
twitter.com
- Category: Social Media & Communication
- Records Announced: 2,873,410,842
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Source:
databreach.com
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Data:
Bios
Email Addresses
Geographic Locations
Languages
Site Activity
Usernames
Websites
- Imported:
- Records Imported: 3,069,134,694
- Number of lines: 3,279,342,453
- Size: 427 GB
- Passwords:
No