Zarak Jibran
RAWALPINDI: Twitter has denied that emails associated with millions of its users’ accounts were obtained through hacking.
The company stated that there is no evidence that the data came from a flaw in their systems and that the records were likely a collection of publicly available information.
However, they did warn users to be cautious of fake emails. Hudson Rock, the firm that raised the alarm about the alleged leaks, disputed Twitter’s findings and called for a thorough examination of the data.
The Irish Data Protection Commission, which is Twitter’s lead regulator in the EU, is investigating a leak of data linked to 5.4 million accounts. Twitter claims that the data was a result of a security flaw caused by a system update in June 2021, which they have since investigated and fixed.
The flaw meant, Twitter says, that if someone obtained an email address or phone number, the faulty system could be used to identify any Twitter accounts that were connected to them.
Twitter says it investigated and fixed the fault when it was warned about it in January 2022 through a “bug bounty” scheme that rewards researchers who alert it to security problems
