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your Twitter info can be for sale a person who goes by the name of Tessa 88 claims they have information on 379 million Twitter accounts Tessa 88 told this information to ZDNet Zach Whittaker over encrypted chat the hacker is selling the data for 10 bitcoins which is nearly six thousand dollars Tessa 88 is connected to the recent data leaks at tumblr myspace and LinkedIn leaked source a search engine that goes to leaked records was given a dataset provided by a user by the name of Tessa 88 at exploit a.m. the company analyzed the Twitter database and found it contained approximately thirty two point nine million records after removing duplicates a record includes a user name and email address sometimes two email addresses and plaintext passwords that would mean those passwords are not encrypted and are visible in plain text leaked source believes that Twitter itself was not hacked they believe Twitter users were infected with malware and the malware collected the data from web browsers leaked source verified passwords belonging to fifteen users the site shared part of the database with ZDNet and two more users were able to verify their password was a part of this collection a Twitter spokesperson says the company is confident that these usernames and credentials were not obtained by a Twitter data breach you can see if your information was compromised by searching at leaked source com Amaya's actor you can keep up with the hottest tech news at cnet.com slash