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Twitter blames: Israeli short-term user information security breach - Walla! TECH

2020-02-04T11:04:20.779Z


Does the Israeli government collect information about residents in networks? Twitter reported Tuesday that officials in Israel, Iran and Malaysia have taken advantage of a security breach in the social network development kit ...


Twitter blames: Israeli brief information on users through security breach

Does the Israeli government collect information about residents in networks? Twitter reported Tuesday that officials in Israel, Iran and Malaysia have taken advantage of a security breach in the popular social network development kit. The hacked talk made it possible to cross phone numbers into accounts, exposing anonymous users

Twitter blames: Israeli brief information on users through security breach

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"On December 24, we discovered a breach in our system, which was exploited by a network that crossed information with our accounts. The source of the suspicious activity from Israel, Iran and Malaysia," the social network Twitter reports. This is a loophole that allowed cross-checking of phone numbers and Twitter accounts, as well as locating those behind anonymous accounts. The breach was found by security researcher Ibrahim Blick, who revealed that 17 million phone numbers were crossed into Twitter accounts. The crossover was made from a pool of two billion phone numbers. The source of the breach is a mechanism that allows members to be added via their phone number, but it seems that Twitter did not limit the feature, which became a serious breach.

"While we detected activity from a large number of countries, we found that most requests came from IPs located in Israel, Iran and Malaysia." They also cautiously stated that "some of the IP addresses that exploited the breach may have belonged to political parties from Israel, Iran and Malaysia." By November 2019, Twitter required all users to provide a phone number to perform 2-step verification. The requirement was still met even when the user requested to use external 2-step verification software, independent of the telephone number.

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The social network Twitter is fundamentally different from Facebook and Instagram, and is used primarily for industry discourse around politics. Unsurprisingly, US President Donald Trump is using Twitter to deliver important messages and even talk to the public. Therefore, many users have set up anonymous accounts through which they review the decisions and activities of governments around the world. For example, those behind the account could be located, and in dark regimes like Iran, they could also "disappear" them or their time for interrogation. Twitter has announced that the breach has been fixed, but it appears the damage has already been done.

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