Allegedly Hacked Twitter Accounts Now Clocks 32 Million

A breach notification website named LeakedSource revealed that as many as 32,888,300 Twitter accounts along with usernames, e-mail accounts and passwords were available on the dark web for all to see, raising fear that the social media has been hacked.
Yet, Twitter maintains that it has not been hacked even though leaked credentials have turned out to be genuine.


However, leakedsource yet uploaded a copy of the hacked data in its searchable pages to prove that its claims were verifiable and has also verified the leaked credentials with fifteen Twitter users. But still Twitter is adamant.

Furthermore, "Passwords were stolen directly from consumers, therefore they are in plaintext with no encryption or hashing. Remember that Twitter probably doesn't store the passwords in plaintext, Chrome an Firefox did," said LeakedSource.
Firefox browser lets you preserve your browsing history from third parties.

If the issues lies within browsers instead of social networking apps, then it would be wise not to allow browsers to save passwords or usernames. With hacker getting access to the latest tools to overcome security settings, we have witnessed a large number of systematic hacks as well as access denying DDoS attacks on major websites and services like BBC, MSN And Several Large websites.

Twitter is working with LeakedSource to obtain leaked credentials and is taking additional steps to protect users.

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