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Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users. (www.techzine.eu)
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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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[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 63 points 1 week ago

This is why I gtfo when Elon took over. I knew something like this would happen.

[-] Obelix@feddit.org 16 points 1 week ago

Exactly this. We knew that everything would get shaky after he fired all those people and a data leak is the consequence

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