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August 20, 2013 06:16 pm GMT

Twitter: No Accounts Compromised in Leak

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A hacker says he gained access to "the entire database of users on Twitter" and has already leaked the login details of more then 15,000 accounts online.

A hacker under the name Mauritania Attacker, who claims to be from Mauritania, a country in West Africa — shared details on Tuesday about the leak via file-sharing site Zippyshare, according to a GigaOm report. The information includes every account's Twitter name, ID and authentication tokens associated with third-party apps that have access to the account (for example, Instagram or HootSuite)

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