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6 682 453 accounts exposed in a breach dated 2022-01-01.

Breached2022-01-01Added to HIBP2022-08-13 UTCUpdated by HIBP2022-08-13 UTCAccounts6 682 453Domaintwitter.com
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What happened in Have I Been Pwned’s words

In January 2022, a vulnerability in Twitter's platform allowed an attacker to build a database of the email addresses and phone numbers of millions of users of the social platform. In a disclosure notice later shared in August 2022, Twitter advised that the vulnerability was related to a bug introduced in June 2021 and that they are directly notifying impacted customers. The impacted data included either email address or phone number alongside other public information including the username, display name, bio, location and profile photo. The data included 6.7M unique email addresses across both active and suspended accounts, the latter appearing in a separate list of 1.4M addresses.

Exposed data as HIBP classifies it

  • Bios
  • Email addresses
  • Geographic locations
  • Names
  • Phone numbers
  • Profile photos
  • Usernames

How HIBP qualifies it

  • HIBP verified that the data came from this service.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

Copied from HIBP 2026-11-05 03:50 UTC