Summary
A leak allegedly involving 2.87 billion Twitter (X) user profiles has surfaced on Breach Forums, with claims it was stolen by a disgruntled employee during recent layoffs.
The leak, shared by known forum user “ThinkingOne,” includes detailed metadata like bios, follower counts, tweet history, and account activity—but not email addresses.
Despite its scale, X has issued no response. The incident raises major privacy concerns amid silence from the company and speculation over the data’s true origin.
Maybe they just accidentally sent it to somebody over signal? I hear that happens.
Signal has removed the “add random person to chat” button. That shouldn’t happen anymore.
Fr, maybe someone magically sucked themselves into a group chat with Elon because that’s a thing that happens all the time.
I hate it when that happens!
All press inquiries will be answered with a poop emoji.
Further examination of the leak showed that at 3% of those accounts were run by real people. 50% of those accounts had mail.ru email addresses.
/s but I’m guessing my numbers aren’t far off.
I won’t be surprised if my data is caught up in that even though I deleted my account last year (after not using it really since it was bought out).
I don’t trust any of these companies to actually, really, for-real-this-time delete anything, ever.