{"id":1798841,"date":"2023-01-08T07:49:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T12:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1798841"},"modified":"2023-01-08T07:50:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T12:50:05","slug":"twitter-leak-exposes-235-million-email-addresses-from-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-leak-exposes-235-million-email-addresses-from-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Leak Exposes 235 Million Email Addresses From Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwitter-leak-exposes-235-million-email-addresses-from-hack%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1798841&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Personal Emails linked with 235 million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-twitter\">Twitter<\/a> According to, accounts that were hacked a while back have been exposed. Israeli Security researcher Alon Gal\u2014making millions vulnerable to having their accounts compromised or identities exposed if they have used the site anonymously to criticize oppressive governments, for instance.<\/p>\n<p>GalCo-founder and chief technology officer of cybersecurity firm, he is Hudson Rock, wrote in a LinkedIn This week, the leak was discovered. \u201cwill unfortunately lead to a lot of hacking, targeted phishing, and doxxing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While account passwords were not leaked, malicious hackers could use the email addresses to try to reset people\u2019s passwords, or guess them if they are commonly used or reused with other accounts. That\u2019s especially a risk if if the accounts are not protected by two-factor authentication, which adds a second layer of security to password-protected accounts by having users enter an auto-generated code to log in.<\/p>\n<p>People Who uses Twitter Anonymously should be a TwitterDedicated email address that is not disclosed about the sender and is used only for their purposes TwitterExperts agree.<\/p>\n<p>Though The hack appears to have occurred before Elon Musk Taking over TwitterThe news of the leaked emails adds yet another headache to the billionaire, whose first two months as head of Twitter It was chaotic to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter Did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment on the hack.<\/p>\n<p>News This breach could cause problems for the company. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The San Francisco In 2011, the company signed a consent agreement that required it to fix serious data-security breaches.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter Paid a $150 Million penalty last MaySeveral months ago Musk\u2019s takeover, for violating the consent order. An Updated version required new procedures to be implemented by the company in order to improve information security and privacy.<\/p>\n<p>In NovemberA group of Democratic Legislators asked federal regulators for an investigation into any violations of the platform&#8217;s consumer-protection laws and data-security commitments.<\/p>\n<p>The FTC stated that at the time, it was \u201ctracking recent developments at Twitter with deep concern,\u201d However, no formal investigation was announced. But Experts, both current and former Twitter Employees have warned of serious security risks from the drastic reduction in staff and the deepening disorder within company.<\/p>\n<p>In August, Twitter\u2019s former head of security filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that the company misled regulators about its poor cybersecurity defenses and its negligence in attempting to root out fake accounts that spread disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>Among Peiter Zatko\u2019s most serious accusations is that Twitter Infringed the terms and conditions of the 2011 FTC settlement. Falsely claimed it had implemented stronger security measures to protect the privacy of its users.<\/p>\n<p><em>By Barbara Ortutay<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-associated-press\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/AP-logo-square-1080.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal Emails linked with 235 million Twitter According to, accounts that were hacked a while back have been exposed. Israeli Security researcher Alon Gal\u2014making millions vulnerable to having their accounts compromised or identities exposed if they have used the site anonymously to criticize oppressive governments, for instance. GalCo-founder and chief technology officer of cybersecurity firm, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1703841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[13895,5475,5458,4077,6897,3749,3654,3819,4253],"class_list":["post-1798841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-13895","tag-addresses","tag-bongino","tag-email","tag-exposes","tag-hack","tag-leak","tag-report","tag-twitter"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1798841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1703841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1798841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1798841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1798841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}