Twitter and Elon Musk should pay a hacker $200,000 to prevent him from selling personal data of more than 400 million users. Know the details In the note!
In a year where Twitter found several changes and controversial news, the end of 2022 seems to be no different. As it became known, the social network suffered an attack by a hacker that compromised the personal information of more than 400 million users. It is not an easy start to the cycle for Elon Musk.
The hacker in question calls himself Ryushi.and the truth is that it puts both Elon Musk like the team Twitter. This way of acting is calledphishing“, Y It is an attack on personal data on the Internet in order to access valuable sites, such as banks or private accounts.. It can also be used to obtain economic returns, as in this case, where Elon Musk must pay $200,000 to buy this data.
At the moment there is no comment from the head of Twitterbut In case of agreeing to pay that figure, the hacker promised never to sell that data again, It’s believe or bust. The problem arises if Elon does not pay that figure, since they can face an even more expensive European GDPR privacy finelike the one you paid for Facebook for $276 million dollars. As if this were not enough, the hacker claims that if he is not paid that amount, he will sell the data to different buyers for $60,000 each.
To make this more true, The hacker was in charge of filtering, as a sample, the data of more than 1,000 users, including several celebrities, such as Donald Trump JR or Piers Morgan. There we can see your emails, the date of creation, your phone number and more personal data. It was the same hacker who was in charge of putting the cards on the table by writing the following: “Your best bet to avoid paying $276 million like Facebook did is to buy this data exclusively…after that I will delete this thread and not sell this data again“.
Evidently this has no place on Twitter, as Ryushi dumped all the information on Breached, a hacking site to sell user data. However, hudson Rockthe threat intelligence company, wrote a tweet where they say the tests appear to be legitimate. we hope that Elon I can still have a good new year.