Despite Twitter’s insistence that its platform is safe and that users simply need to choose ‘stronger passwords’, it appears there is more to the recent account hacks than Twitter is saying.
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Just a few days after Mark Zuckerberg’s account was hacked and a group calling itself ‘OurMine’ claimed responsibility for the hack, an unknown user is selling usernames and passwords for almost 33 million Twitter accounts.
On LeakedSource, the user simply identified as Tessa88 is offering Twitter’s entire user database for sale for about $5,800. Each record up for sale consists of one or two email addresses, username and a password
LeakedSource says it has tested fifteen of the user accounts up for offer and they have checked out!
