Twitter cites ‘Iran & Israel state actors’ after suspending researcher who exposed new user-data flaw

Jaap Arriens

Twitter, in a post so reassuring it’s alarming, says it stopped possible state-backed actors in Iran and Israel from exploiting its features. But the only clear ‘actor’ may be a lone researcher who reported the bug six weeks ago.

“Iran, Israel and Malaysia suspected of exploiting Twitter phone number security flaw,” read a headline on Sky News. “Twitter: Israel, Iran may have accessed users’ phone numbers,” warned the Jerusalem Post.

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