Cybersecurity incident — 2016-06-07 00:00:00
Affected organization: Twitter
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined

The same hacker who had links to the recent MySpace, LinkedIn, and Tumblr data breaches, claims to have obtained a database from Twitter, which includes email addresses (and sometimes two per person), usernames, and plain-text passwords. Tessa88 is selling the cache for 10 bitcoins, or about $5,820 at the time of writing.