Breach of X allegedly leaks over 200M users' email addresses
a year ago
- #Data Breach
- #X/Twitter
- #Cybersecurity
- Significant data breach at Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter) discovered by SafetyDetectives.
- 34 GB .CVS file containing over 201 million entries of user data, including metadata and email addresses.
- Data verified as accurate by SafetyDetectives.
- Breach allegedly affects over 200 million users, with potential impact on 2.8 billion accounts.
- Earlier 2023 breach involved 209 million users, including email addresses.
- Combined data from both breaches could enable phishing and social engineering attacks.
- X has not acknowledged the 2025 leak.
- X recently sold to Musk's AI company, xAI.