As his millions of accounts show Twitter that are available for sale, are real..A hacker, who has from time to time made available hacked accounts data on MySpace, LinkedIn and Tumblr, is said to be trying to sell millions of Twitter accounts as well.
A Russian, nicknamed Tessa88, managed to acquire the database, which includes email addresses, user names, and passwords in plain text.
Tessa88 allegedly sells data for 10 bitcoins, or about 5.820 dollars.
Tessa88 reported that data includes 379 million accounts from 2015.
However, the analysis of the database by LeakedSource, a website that discloses data violations, showed that there are actually more than 32 million alleged accounts in the database when it removed the duplicates.
LeakedSource even states that it is highly unlikely that Twitter was hacked, and that someone is likely responsible for the leak. malware.
The LeakedSource team also reported that passwords are "stolen directly from consumers, and are therefore plain text without encryption." They also rightly observed that TWitter has not stored its users' data in plain text since 2014.
"But these credentials are real and valid," the team said. “The lesson here? It is not only companies that can be violated. And users should be very careful. "
A spokesman for Twitter said:
"A number of other online services report millions of passwords that have been stolen in the past. We recommend that you use a unique, strong password for your Twitter account. ”
