# What Twitter’s 200 million email leak really means

**URL:** <https://forum.devtalk.com/t/what-twitter-s-200-million-email-leak-really-means/90658>\
**Category:** In The News\
**Tags:** email, twitter, via-ars-technica\
**Created:** [8 January 2023 01:31 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/what-twitter-s-200-million-email-leak-really-means/90658 "2023-01-08T01:31:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![CommunityNews](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/communitynews/32/1113_2.png) [@CommunityNews](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/CommunityNews)\
**Post date:** [8 January 2023 01:31 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/what-twitter-s-200-million-email-leak-really-means/90658/1 "2023-01-08T01:31:59Z")

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> Exposure of email addresses puts pseudonymous users of the social network at risk.

Read in full here:

> **[What Twitter’s 200 Million-User Email Leak Actually Means](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/what-twitters-200-million-email-leak-really-means/)**
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> The exposure of hundreds of millions of email addresses puts pseudonymous users of the social network at risk.

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**Author:** ![KnowledgeIsPower](https://forum.devtalk.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/c6cbf5/32.png) [@KnowledgeIsPower](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/KnowledgeIsPower)\
**Post date:** [8 January 2023 04:34 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/what-twitter-s-200-million-email-leak-really-means/90658/3 "2023-01-08T04:34:05Z")

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Has Twitter notified anyone about the information leak?

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**Author:** ![AstonJ](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/astonj/32/7_2.png) [@AstonJ](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/AstonJ)\
**Post date:** [10 January 2023 22:04 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/what-twitter-s-200-million-email-leak-really-means/90658/4 "2023-01-10T22:04:41Z")

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Don’t think so… at least I don’t think I’ve had any emails from them about this…

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**Author:** ![KnowledgeIsPower](https://forum.devtalk.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/c6cbf5/32.png) [@KnowledgeIsPower](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/KnowledgeIsPower)\
**Post date:** [11 January 2023 13:03 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/what-twitter-s-200-million-email-leak-really-means/90658/5 "2023-01-11T13:03:26Z")

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In the place where I live (Asia), I had experienced some local company that has security breaches (leaking of personal information) for a few times. Usually they would notify the users about the leak.

Twitter is such a big company, why there are no warning or notification send to the users?

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**Author:** ![AstonJ](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/astonj/32/7_2.png) [@AstonJ](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/AstonJ)\
**Post date:** [12 January 2023 03:20 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/what-twitter-s-200-million-email-leak-really-means/90658/6 "2023-01-12T03:20:16Z")

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> [@KnowledgeIsPower](#):
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> …security breaches ( **leaking of personal information** )

Funnily enough this video popped up on TikTok the other day - which reminded me we give so much of it away ‘freely’, well those using Android phones anyway :lol:

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7179561938622434566