twitter – HackRead | Latest Cybersecurity and Hacking News Site https://www.hackread.com HackRead | Latest Cybersecurity and Hacking News Site Mon, 27 Mar 2023 19:42:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 https://www.hackread.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cropped-Favicon-for-HACKREAD-32x32.png twitter – HackRead | Latest Cybersecurity and Hacking News Site https://www.hackread.com 32 32 Portion of Twitter’s proprietary source code leaked on GitHub https://www.hackread.com/twitter-source-code-leak-github/ Mon, 27 Mar 2023 19:41:04 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=109519 By Deeba Ahmed

Twitter had to file a DMCA request after its source code was found on GitHub.

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SMS-Based 2FA Will Be Limited to Twitter Blue Users https://www.hackread.com/sms-based-2fa-twitter-blue/ Sat, 18 Feb 2023 17:21:52 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=107783 By Habiba Rashid

Twitter will now charge for 2FA, limiting the must-have security feature to only Twitter Blue subscribers.

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Twitter Denies Any Hack Attack in 200M Account Leak Scare https://www.hackread.com/twitter-hack-attack-200m-account-leak/ Thu, 12 Jan 2023 12:43:44 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=105792 By Waqas

Twitter claims that “The data is likely a collection of data already publicly available online through different sources.”

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Twitter Scraping Breach: 209 Million Accounts Leaked on Hacker Forum https://www.hackread.com/twitter-scraping-breach-leak-hacker-forum/ Fri, 06 Jan 2023 22:56:00 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=105525 By Waqas

The data was collected through web scraping techniques however some sites are reporting it as a "Twitter data breach," or " Twitter being hacked."

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400 Million Twitter Users’ Scraped Info Goes on Sale! https://www.hackread.com/400-million-twitter-user-scraped-info/ Wed, 28 Dec 2022 02:17:09 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=105328 By Habiba Rashid

The threat actor claims that Twitter data was "scraped via a vulnerability."

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Mastodon Account Suspended from Twitter Following Ban on Server Links https://www.hackread.com/mastodon-twitter-account-suspended/ Fri, 16 Dec 2022 10:09:54 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=104895 By Habiba Rashid

Elon Musk's Twitter is on a suspension spree.

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Hacker Leaks 5.3M Twitter Accounts as Claims of Larger Breach Surface https://www.hackread.com/twitter-jan-data-breach-leak/ Mon, 28 Nov 2022 12:07:00 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=103755 By Habiba Rashid

A hacker has leaked 5.3 million Twitter account details on a cybercrime forum while another researcher, Chad Loder, claims there is another Twitter breach involving "perhaps over 100 million accounts."

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Your Guide To Navigating Mastodon, an Alternative to Twitter https://www.hackread.com/mastodon-guide-twitter-alternative/ Wed, 09 Nov 2022 20:37:00 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=102905 By Habiba Rashid

In this article, we will address what is Mastodon and how it works. Basically, this is one of those "everything you should know about" articles. Enjoy!

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Twitter’s Unpredictable Path Under Elon Musk https://www.hackread.com/twitter-unpredictable-path-elon-musk/ Wed, 09 Nov 2022 13:37:51 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=102897 By Habiba Rashid

Hints of the impending doom that was inevitable with Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter began to…

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Twitter Confirms Data Breach as 5.4M Accounts Sold on Hacker Forum https://www.hackread.com/twitter-data-breach-accounts-sold-hacker-forum/ Sun, 07 Aug 2022 00:19:39 +0000 https://www.hackread.com/?p=98828 By Deeba Ahmed

Twitter was forced to investigate the incident when a hacker offered the personal details of 5.4 million Twitter…

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