Twitter is the next leaked database that I would like to show you.
It contains over 200 million Twitter profiles, and these profiles were scraped by attackers by misusing
a Twitter API to match email addresses with Twitter profiles.
So there is high probability that you'll be able to find someone's username in this leaked database.
The information that have been leaked are email addresses, names, social media profiles, and usernames.
So if you were able to find someone's username in this leaked database, this means that you will be
able to find their email address and by having their email address.
This means that you have their unique identifier because this email address belongs only to this person.
And in the next section, you will learn some methods and tactics to find more information about an
email address.
All right so let's download Twitter leak database.
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My favorite method is by going to Google and then searching for this data leak by typing Twitter.
And then since I know that 200 million profiles were leaked, I'm going to say 200 million like this
into two quotation marks.
And then I'm going to add another search term, which is magnet, and then colon, and then question
mark and then a quote.
This will show me this search term Twitter 200 million and magnet.
And we already know that magnet is a linked format that is used to download through torrent.
So I'm going to hit enter.
And as you can see we have got three search results.
You can open any search results and dig in because every situation is going to be different because
these websites might get shut down in the future.
So it's always good to search within all search results to find if there is any link to download this
database.
Now, in my case, I have opened the first search result And I have got a magnet link, so I'm going
to copy it.
If we scroll up, we can see that somebody has posted this link claiming that this is the database.
So I've copied the link.
The torrent link.
Then I'm going to open my torrent client which is Utorrent.
And then I'm going to go to torrent and I'm going to say add torrent and then add the link in here.
And then I can click on Add Torrent.
In my case I've already added.
But what I have realized is that it starts downloading and then once it reaches one gigabyte, it's
going to stop downloading.
I don't know why, but this is a lesson for you just to know that some links might not work all the
time.
So what I'm going to do is just to go to this website that I've opened, and then I'm going to search
for Twitter 200 million, because I might be able to find another link.
And we can see here that there is a link or a search result.
I'm going to click on it, and then I'm going to scroll up and go to the first page.
And here we can see that there is someone who posted this data link.
And it seems to be that this one is a client link database.
And if we scroll down, we can see that if we want to view this content, we need to create an account.
So let me go and register.
Now of course you are not going to use your real email address or username.
So I'm going to type anything.
And then I'm going to type any email address to see if this works.
And then I'm going to type a certain password then say agree and then register.
And you can see that now my registration is complete.
And it didn't send me any link to activate my account.
So I'm going to the page again or to the post again.
Here it is.
Let me go to the first page again, and you can see here that I need to click on like before viewing
the hidden data.
So I'm going to scroll down and here is the like button.
I've liked it and I'm going to say download.
So here is the file.
It's called Twitter full BF.
I'm going to say download or I think it's written in Russian.
So I'm going to click on this icon.
And now it's going to start downloading.
Now as you can see the database is 12.3GB.
And once you extract it it's going to be 60GB.
So I've already downloaded this linked database.
So I'm going to cancel the download.
So here is the leaked database I'm going to right click on it and then say extract all.
Once you click on Extract all you will get this folder.
So I'm going to go to it and then go again to data.
And we can see that we have seven txt files.
In my case I don't need to open each file and search for Rishi Kabra username.
Instead, I can right mouse click and then go to show more options and then open agent transaction.
That will allow me to search within all of these files.
Now to save some time, I have already searched for Rishi Kabra username and I wasn't able to find it
in this league database.
But that's fine because this is something that's going to happen to you.
It's very normal.
You might search in multiple league databases and not find anything, but you always need to stay consistent
and use the information that you have to find more information, which is what you are learning in this
course.
So to show you a real life example, I'm going to copy Zaid username on Twitter, and then I'm going
to search for it within this league database.
So I'm going to put the username and then turn off this option to turn match case off because we don't
need this.
And then I'm going to click on start.
Now as I said before, the program is going to start searching within multiple TXT files that are over
60GB, so this could take some time.
Now as you can see, we have got a match.
I'm going to pose it.
We can see that in this file.
Hit seven.
We have got an email address and a username which does not belong to Zaitzevi.
So I'm going to go to the next file.
And here we are going to see that username and his email address that he used to register on Twitter.
So now we have his email address.
And by possessing the email address, we can perform more Osint methods to find more information about
this person.
So in this lecture, you have learned how to download Twitter Leak database that contains over 200 million
Twitter profiles and how you can search within this leak database to find email addresses.