Data breach
Twitter (200M)twitter.com
211 524 284 accounts exposed in a breach dated 2021-01-01.
Breached2021-01-01Added to HIBP2023-01-05 UTCUpdated by HIBP2023-01-05 UTCAccounts211 524 284Domaintwitter.com
Verified
What happened in Have I Been Pwned’s words
In early 2023, over 200M records scraped from Twitter appeared on a popular hacking forum. The data was obtained sometime in 2021 by abusing an API that enabled email addresses to be resolved to Twitter profiles. The subsequent results were then composed into a corpus of data containing email addresses alongside public Twitter profile information including names, usernames and follower counts.
Exposed data as HIBP classifies it
- Email addresses
- Names
- Social media profiles
- 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