Brian Greenberg<p>🔓 200M X (Twitter) user records leaked in a 34GB free-for-all—again.</p><p>Data enthusiast “ThinkingOne” released the files after allegedly failing to get a response from X. The breach combines:<br>・Data from a 2022 vulnerability X previously downplayed<br>・January 2025 breach data<br>・A total of 2.8 billion records spanning X user IDs, emails, bios, locations & more</p><p>X continues to deny its systems were the direct source of the leak. But researchers confirm much of the data is real—and the scale is unmatched.</p><p>💡 The kicker? ThinkingOne believes this might’ve required internal access, or an attack of unprecedented sophistication.</p><p>Even without passwords, this treasure trove fuels phishing, impersonation, and targeted disinformation.</p><p>👉 <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/04/01/hacker-claims-to-have-leaked-200-million-x-user-data-records-for-free/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2</span><span class="invisible">025/04/01/hacker-claims-to-have-leaked-200-million-x-user-data-records-for-free/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CyberSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CyberSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DataBreach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataBreach</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/XPlatform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XPlatform</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Twitter</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/SecurityAwareness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SecurityAwareness</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DigitalRisk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalRisk</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/UserData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UserData</span></a></p>