Elon Musk X Data Leak: Data of crores of users of Elon Musk’s social media platform X (formerly Twitter) has been leaked. A report has come out regarding this, which states that more than 200 million users may be affected by this. However, no official confirmation has been made by X regarding this.
Researchers at Cyber Press have claimed that the size of the leaked records is 9.4GB (10 files of about 1GB each). This includes users’ email addresses, names and other account details. This data breach can affect millions of ex-users.
Leaked database released from this account
Researchers said that users can now face phishing, identity theft and many other types of online attacks. The leaked database was released from an account named Michupa. According to the information, the data leak related to these leaked X accounts contains downloadable links which can bring big trouble for the users.
How can you keep yourself safe?
Users can try some safety tips to keep themselves safe like changing passwords, enabling two-factor authentication and ignoring suspicious emails and messages. Users should immediately check the login activity of their ex-account and also keep an eye on which account their account is logged in.
By implementing strong safety and security methods, potential vulnerabilities can be detected through security audits from time to time. Along with this, make people aware about online attacks. Apart from this, users should not open any link even by mistake as it may contain malware.
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