Cybersecurity
Twitter Says Leaked User Data Didn’t Come From Flaw in Its Platform
- Names, emails of purported Twitter users posted last week
- Company says technical flaw wasn’t exploited to grab data
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Twitter Inc. said Wednesday that an alleged data leak purporting to contain more than 200 million names and email addresses of its users wasn’t the result of exploiting any technical flaws on its platform.
The company said in a blog post that there was “no evidence that the data being sold online was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability of Twitter systems.” The troves of user information didn’t match data exposed in previous security incidents, Twitter said.