Twitter denies hacking, says no evidence data up for sale is from its system

Twitter has denied that it was hacked and the data being sold online was stolen from its systems. Last week, Alon Gal, co-founder of Israeli cybersecurity-monitoring firm Hudson Rock posted on LinkedIn that he had discovered stolen data, which contained email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users. Gal wrote that the data was posted on an online hacking forum and that the breach would likely lead to “hacking, targeted phishing and doxxing,” and termed it a ‘significant leak.’ He said that Twitter had not responded to him when he had alerted the company about the same.