{"id":143964,"date":"2022-08-14T19:12:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T00:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/your-secret-twitter-account-may-no-longer-be-secret"},"modified":"2022-08-14T19:12:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T00:12:02","slug":"your-secret-twitter-account-may-no-longer-be-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/your-secret-twitter-account-may-no-longer-be-secret","title":{"rendered":"Your secret Twitter account may no longer be secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/your-secret-twitter-account-may-no-longer-be-secret2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Someone has gotten a hold of this data, and is selling it online.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If you have a secret Twitter account, we\u2019ve got some bad news for you.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Twitter disclosed information about a security vulnerability that allowed someone to find out whether a specific email address or phone number is tied to an existing Twitter accounts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn January 2022, we received a report through our bug bounty program of a vulnerability in Twitter\u2019s systems. As a result of the vulnerability, if someone submitted an email address or phone number to Twitter\u2019s systems, Twitter\u2019s systems would tell the person what Twitter account the submitted email addresses or phone number was associated with, if any,\u201d the company wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/privacy.twitter.com\/en\/blog\/2022\/an-issue-affecting-some-anonymous-accounts\">blog post Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone has gotten a hold of this data, and is selling it online. If you have a secret Twitter account, we\u2019ve got some bad news for you. On Friday, Twitter disclosed information about a security vulnerability that allowed someone to find out whether a specific email address or phone number is tied to an existing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}