A self-proclaimed data enthusiast calling themselves ‘ThinkingOne’ has made a huge database containing 201 million pieces of user data from X freely available. The data is said to have come from two previous leaks and includes email addresses, locations and profile data of users of the social media platform.
I think they mean 10 million users, 30 million abandoned accounts, and 160 million bots.
Thoughts and prayers
this leak has proven in the past to be fatally dangerous to anonymous activists fighting tyrant governments all around the world. let’s hope it does not fall into the wrong hands
It fell into the wrong hands 3 years ago. If those people failed to recognize the danger they put themselves in by continuing to use the platform they are shit out of luck cause Musk will never take responsibility.
If you use anything but TOR together with spoofed VPNs for “activism” against a government that would jail/kill you, you are being reckless.
If you use X for your activism, you’re not an activist you’re a fed honeypot.
It’s not realistic to expect your average civic minded person to also have such operational securitt. Instead the bad actors who threaten them should found, exposed, dismantled, persecuted with extreme prejudice
Imagine being stupid enough to use x.com for your activism 🙄
This vulnerability made it possible to collect user data simply by knowing someone’s email address or phone number.
Another example of where it pays off to have separate email addresses/aliases for every website/service you use.
I think it pays even more to not use X
Massive X data leak affects over 200 million products.
FTFY.
Massive X data leak affects over 200 million bots.
This is why I gtfo when Elon took over. I knew something like this would happen.
He sent his tech bros in to fix the database. Now they’ll use the same skills to fix the SS databases.
Quick everyone do their banking on it!
That’s like, 400 actual non-bot accounts. Nobody is safe anymore!
So what is that, like 6 or 7 people?
A sock for every puppet.
It also includes the people that deleted their Twitter accounts following the acquisition. I’m one of those people and I’m especially annoyed because I only used that blasted app only to register to some giveaways when I was in middle school. I have since discontinued that email account, but still.
lmaoooo
Someone should check the email and phone number of Adrian Dittman to see if they match Elon’s. Idiots can argue that it isn’t Elon despite speech pattern evidence, but it’s harder to argue when both of them share the same identifying info.
I thought he fessed up to that
Who is/was Adrian Dittman? Out of the loop of Twitter drama.
Someone Musk made up to simply glaze himself on twitter.
So his version of HitlerPig’s John Baron?
i am pretty sure Dittman is a real person https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/05/bad-news-for-adrian-dittman-elon-musk-truthers/
Yeah, I know there was a story in that Spectator magazine. I’m still not sold. Dittman said way too many stupid things that point to him being Elon.
How many of them are Elmo’s alt-accounts?
Yes
I still can’t believe Xerox still has that many users
Or this could be publicity stunt “look how many users we have, many users, beutifull users like never before, nobody knew how many users as there”.
