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Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users. (www.techzine.eu)

submitted 2 days 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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[–] PurpleSkull@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you use anything but TOR together with spoofed VPNs for "activism" against a government that would jail/kill you, you are being reckless.

If you use X for your activism, you're not an activist you're a fed honeypot.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

It's not realistic to expect your average civic minded person to also have such operational securitt. Instead the bad actors who threaten them should found, exposed, dismantled, persecuted with extreme prejudice