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Twitter Inc said on Wednesday that there was no evidence that data recently being sold online was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability in the company’s systems.
Twitter says no evidence new user data leaks were obtained via system bug
Jan 11 (Reuters) – Twitter Inc said on Wednesday that
there was no evidence that data recently being sold online was
obtained by exploiting a vulnerability in the company’s systems.
Twitter said the data of 5.4 million of the accounts had
been compromised by a bug it discovered early last year, which
it previously fixed and disclosed over the summer.
Another 600 million pieces of user data “could not be
correlated with the previously reported incident, nor with any
new incident,” Twitter said in a blog post.
“There is no evidence that the data being sold online
was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability of Twitter systems.
The data is likely a collection of data already publicly
available online through different sources,” it said.
