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Among other high-profile news, Twitter has been receiving criticism for its bad bots and fake users this year.<\/p>\n

The issue began in December 2021, when a zero-day software vulnerability became exploited. A zero-day software attack occurs when a fraudster takes advantage of an undetected security flaw.<\/p>\n

In Twitter’s case, the vulnerability appeared shortly after a software update had taken place in June 2021.  It then became exploited faster than they could fix it.<\/p>\n

In January 2022, Twitter confirmed they experienced a breach that affected millions of users. By July, an anonymous hacker boasted about a whopping 5,485,636 accounts that were on sale for $30,000 on the dark web.<\/p>\n

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To this day, the number of accounts purchased from this ad remains unclear. <\/p>\n

Twitter explains<\/a>,<\/p>\n

“This bug resulted from an update to our code in June 2021. When we learned about this, we immediately investigated and fixed it. At that time, we had no evidence to suggest someone had taken advantage of the vulnerability.”<\/p>\n

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