Twitter Sued Over Data Leak, Denies Responsibility

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A New York resident is suing Twitter over an alleged data leak caused by a flaw in the platform's systems, which the company denies.

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On Friday, Stephen Gerber filed a class action suit with the San Francisco federal court over the 2021-2022 hack that may have affected more than 200 million users' private information.

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According to a report, Gerber faults the company's application programming interface, or API, for enabling hackers to access usernames, email addresses and phone numbers.

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Twitter says that in July 2022, it became aware that a "bad actor" was offering to sell information it had obtained through a "vulnerability in Twitter's systems."

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"After reviewing a sample of the available data for sale, we confirmed that a bad actor had taken advantage of the issue before it was addressed," the post stated.

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However, it claimed that the incident reported in Jan. 2023 was not new and that "none of the datasets analyzed contained passwords or information that could lead to passwords being compromised."

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In the case filing, Gerber says Twitter may have tried to downplay the scale of the data breach. He added that the company "to this day, has inexplicably failed to notify or contact the victims of this particular API exploitation."

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As per report that Gerber is seeking unspecified monetary damages likely in excess of $5 million. The suit also seeks a court order requiring Twitter to employ third-party security auditors to monitor its systems and improve user security.

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The case is Gerber v. Twitter Inc., 3:23-cv-00186, US District Court, Northern District of California (San Francisco).

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