Breaking Twitter News

On February 3rd, 2019, a massive security incident occurred on Twitter where people's phone numbers became matched to their username, leading people's personal information to be exposed all over Twitter.

A large network of fake accounts hacked into Twitter's API system and matched usernames to phone numbers. This process is known as scraping, in that fake accounts focus on collecting huge numbers of people's personal information and share it all over social media networks. Scraping is highly against Twitter's terms of service. It is completely illegal to gather and access information that way. The fake accounts were linked to several different countries, such as Malaysia, Iran, and Israel. Twitter released a statement tweet on their site that day explaining how they have corrected the issue, and they are going to embark on an extensive investigation to make sure this event doesn't occur again.

These types of scandals are the reason why social media scares me. I always get nervous about how my personal information is linked to my accounts, and that if anyone in the world hacked into my account, they would know everything about me. Social media allows us to really not have any privacy anymore. Nobody knows who is actually behind that account. People can learn your whole identity through hacking at least one social media account you have.

I learned from this article that you really need to be careful about what information you decide to put out to the world. Once your private information is out there, it cannot be taken back. I have a Twitter account of my own, and after reading this article I checked to make sure the information I had on there was information I am willing to expose. Also, this scandal really makes you think about the accounts that are out there now on social media. Are those accounts real or fake? Fake news is all around us every day. It is getting harder and harder to decipher which information is untrue and which information is false.

https://www.cnet.com/news/twitter-security-incident-reveals-user-phone-numbers/

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