[BlueGh0st]

>..the twitter "hack" was someone running phone numbers through the "upload you contacts and find your friends account" feature.

>They are both barely stories, except to remind people that posting stuff publicly is public.

The reoccurring issue is that Twitter and other companies are convincing (and often forcing) you to do something unsafe like linking your phone number, while telling you that your data will be kept private and at the same time opting you in by default, or aggressively marketing, an option that compromises your security.

I'm sure you may be smart enough to know this compromises your anonymity, allows stalkers to find your phone number, etc. but the 99% of users wont.

Linking everything to a phone number is a major dark pattern that benefits the corporations while compromising the user. So rightfully, these malicious and harmful practices should be called out.

[shadowgovt]

Additionally, Twitter collected PII and then did a bad job protecting it. We don't see a phone-numbers-leaked story like this out of Google, which has had 2FA with phone number deployed for years.

Twitter has some 200+ million daily active users and should act like it.

[blitzar]

Decide whether people who have your email address or phone number can find and connect with you on Twitter. If you select yes, then someone with l33t skills can "hack" twitter and type in your email / phone number and get your twitter handle (or just put it in their contacts and click a button in the twitter app aka l33t hax0r skills)

The reason there isnt "leak" from google is because they dont offer the functionality to look up your account by your phone number.