{"id":154473,"date":"2023-01-05T18:22:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T00:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/twitter-hacked-200-million-user-email-addresses-leaked-researcher-says"},"modified":"2023-01-05T18:22:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T00:22:49","slug":"twitter-hacked-200-million-user-email-addresses-leaked-researcher-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/twitter-hacked-200-million-user-email-addresses-leaked-researcher-says","title":{"rendered":"Twitter hacked, 200 million user email addresses leaked, researcher says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/twitter-hacked-200-million-user-email-addresses-leaked-researcher-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hackers stole the email addresses of more than 200 million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/business-and-innovation\/tech-and-start-ups\/article-726478\">Twitter<\/a> users and posted them on an online hacking forum, a security researcher said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The breach \u201cwill unfortunately lead to a lot of hacking, targeted phishing and doxxing,\u201d Alon Gal, co-founder of Israeli cybersecurity-monitoring firm Hudson Rock, wrote on LinkedIn. He called it \u201cone of the most significant leaks I\u2019ve seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twitter has not commented on the report, which Gal first posted about on social media on Dec. 24, nor responded to inquiries about the breach since that date. It was not clear what action, if any, Twitter has taken to investigate or remediate the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers stole the email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users and posted them on an online hacking forum, a security researcher said Wednesday. The breach \u201cwill unfortunately lead to a lot of hacking, targeted phishing and doxxing,\u201d Alon Gal, co-founder of Israeli cybersecurity-monitoring firm Hudson Rock, wrote on LinkedIn. He called it \u201cone [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154473","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}