: It allows bad actors to find the private email address of an anonymous account.
The data was likely harvested in using a vulnerability in Twitter's API that allowed users to input an email/phone number and retrieve the associated Twitter ID. Twitter confirmed the vulnerability was patched in January 2022, but the scraped data has circulated in various "Collections" ever since. Twitter Collection 2022 Extra.zip
The file is part of a series of datasets compiled in late 2022 and early 2023. It typically contains: : It allows bad actors to find the
: This is the most sensitive part; the leak allegedly linked public handles to private email addresses. Twitter Collection 2022 Extra.zip
: Locations and bios provided by users on their profiles. ⚠️ Security Implications