Twitter Confirms Recent Data Breach Exposed 5.4 Million Accounts
In January 2022, we received a report through our bug bounty program of a vulnerability in Twitters systems. When we learned about this, we immediately investigated and fixed it, Twitter disclosed in asecurity advisory. The flaw was discoveredby a security researcherZhirinovskyin January 2022who wasawarded $5,000 for disclosing the vulnerability. At that time, the company had no evidence to indicate someone had taken advantage of the vulnerability. We will be directly notifying the account owners we can confirm were affected by this issue....