>Anyone affected by this should be suing twitter for even collecting this information! My friend can give away my phone number because of this data collection.
Given the ramifications on leaking Name with phone number of people who didn't agree directly anything with Twitter and just had there contact details trawled by any of their friends signing up. Not good as with that, hijacking phone numbers has been done many ways and times, even the CEO of Twitter had that stunt pulled upon him. What with 2FA for many being a text message sent to your phone number. The ramifications of this could be bigger than they first appear and remember. They only found this, how long has this been open to such abuse. So anybody who had their phone number hijacked in X period of time, this `might` be a possible explanation in some of those instances.
Legally - no idea how this will pan out, but certainly not be the last we read about this.
Given the ramifications on leaking Name with phone number of people who didn't agree directly anything with Twitter and just had there contact details trawled by any of their friends signing up. Not good as with that, hijacking phone numbers has been done many ways and times, even the CEO of Twitter had that stunt pulled upon him. What with 2FA for many being a text message sent to your phone number. The ramifications of this could be bigger than they first appear and remember. They only found this, how long has this been open to such abuse. So anybody who had their phone number hijacked in X period of time, this `might` be a possible explanation in some of those instances.
Legally - no idea how this will pan out, but certainly not be the last we read about this.