Ireland's Data Protection Commission announced an own-volition inquiry into the potential compromise of more than 5 million Twitter accounts reported in November 2022. Twitter provided the DPC with "a number of responses" to initial questions regarding the alleged compromise of datasets found to "map Twitter IDs to email addresses and/or telephone numbers of the associated data subjects." The DPC decided to pursue a full investigation based on "the opinion that one or more provisions of the GDPR and/or the Act may have been, and/or are being, infringed."
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