A network of fake accounts in december, without permission, tried to get on the Twitter, phone numbers, names ago. That is, the company announced in a blog post.
these accounts were, according to Twitter’s abuse of a system that allows users to be friends on the network will be able to find their phone number. Twitter was on december 24, 2019 at the latest on the case. It is a social medium, ” says the account immediately and to have been suspended. It is also an investigation was started.
Twitter says that the IP address of the fake accounts, primarily in Iran, Israel, and Malaysia. “It is possible that some of these addresses are linked to the attackers, that is, for government work.”
the cause of The leak, it was at the end of last year, was discovered by the beveiligingsonderzoeker Ibrahim Balic. He had found a weakness in the Android mobile app from Twitter that he’s about seventeen million of phone numbers for user accounts could be linked.
It is not clear whether a malicious intent, the numbers are actually stored, and if so, what has happened here. Twitter says the changes have been made in the system, so that the numbers will not be readily accessible to the public.
This is not the first time something goes wrong with the attached phone numbers on Twitter. In October, the company announced that the e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers of the user are unintentionally or means of advertising were used. That has been resolved.
