A zero-day vulnerability in Twitter's API, introduced in June 2021 and patched in January 2022.
The file refers to a significant data leak from 2022 that exposed the private information of millions of users. The leak originated from an API vulnerability that allowed attackers to link email addresses and phone numbers to specific account IDs. Overview of the Leak Twitter_2022.7z
"Scraping" rather than a traditional server breach. Attackers submitted lists of emails/phone numbers to the API to see which accounts they belonged to. Feature Breakdown: Contents of the Archive A zero-day vulnerability in Twitter's API, introduced in
Non-public email addresses or phone numbers used to register the account. Overview of the Leak "Scraping" rather than a
Verified status, location, account creation date, and follower/following counts. Visuals: URLs for profile images. Impact and Versions
The first major dump, leaked for free in November 2022, contained roughly 5.48 million user records.
Later iterations (often titled similarly) appeared in early 2023, claiming to contain over 200 million unique records, which researchers believe was a "cleaned up" version of earlier, larger datasets. Security Risks Twitter Data Breaches | Panorays
