Twitter launches probe after miscreants claims to have swiped 5.4m users' details
the privacy flaw, which lies in the authorization process in Twitter's Android client, on New Year's Day. Essentially, an oversight in the software's design could be abused to harvest the email addresses and phone numbers registered with Twitter accounts, even if users had chosen not to reveal this info.
"Such bases can be sold to malicious parties for advertising purposes, or for the purposes of [targeting] celebrities in different malicious activities," the bug hunter added."Also a cool feature that I [discovered] is that you can even find the id's of suspended Twitter accounts using this method."
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