5.4M Twitter users' stolen data leaked online – more shared privately

This breach itself is not news. [0] [1]

This part is the 'news' you are looking for:

> "In September, and now more recently, on November 24th, the 5.4 million Twitter records have now been shared for free on a hacking forum."

> "These records contain either a private email address or phone number, and public scraped data, including the account's Twitter ID, name, screen name, verified status, location, URL, description, follower count, account creation date, friends count, favorites count, statuses count, and profile image URLs."

> "We were told that it consists of over 17 million records but could not independently confirm this."

Let the SS7, phishing and SIM swapping games begin on Twitter and beyond and hiding your accounts won't help as your PII with your phone number and email is there forever.

[0] https://privacy.twitter.com/en/blog/2022/an-issue-affecting-...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32399949

How many people are going to read the headline only and jump to say "LOOK what Elon did, it's all his fault for firing everyone!"