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Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users. (www.techzine.eu)
submitted 1 day ago by Tea@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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A self-proclaimed data enthusiast calling themselves ‘ThinkingOne’ has made a huge database containing 201 million pieces of user data from X freely available. The data is said to have come from two previous leaks and includes email addresses, locations and profile data of users of the social media platform.

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[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 193 points 1 day ago (29 children)

This vulnerability made it possible to collect user data simply by knowing someone’s email address or phone number.

Another example of where it pays off to have separate email addresses/aliases for every website/service you use.

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 12 points 1 day ago (20 children)

Wait, so you literally have hundreds of accounts? How do you manage them all?

[–] NikoWantToGoBowling@lemm.ee 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Password manager plus an emailing alias service. Protonpass integrates with SimpleLogin but there’s also ones like Firefox relay and anomaly (all open source)

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks, though do you have a link for Anomaly? I can't seem to pull up anything.

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