A hacker claims he has obtained hoards of millions Twitter user credentials. He also reports that he is selling it for 10 Bitcoins. Tessa88 who is the seller says that he has access to credentials of over 379 million accounts. But as this figure is more than Twitter’s official active user base figure of 310 million, it is believed that it must have also included disabled and inactive accounts.
Leaked Sources had revealed that the database was being up for sale. A security firm states, that after removing the duplicates, the leaked cache was found to contain more than 32 million user credentials. It is also giving information like the usernames, email addresses, and plain-text passwords. Leaked Source also says that the likely source of the cache was not due to a breach of Twitter’s systems, but because of malware that stole the credential details from the browsers.
It is said by the security firm that the passwords were found to be in plain-text format which indicates that no hashing or encryption had taken place. Thus, making it difficult to accept the fact that, it has been obtained from Twitter’s systems. Reuters India has been informed by a Twitter spokesperson that the company is confident that usernames and credentials were not obtained by a data breach, [and that] systems have not been breached.
