22 April 2021
Between 27 and 31 March, Twitter locked three accounts that deal with cyber-security issues and regularly post information about data breaches. These accounts belong to the Free Software Movement of India, Rajshekhar Rajaharia and Robert Baptiste, who goes by the name Elliot Alderson on Twitter. Rajaharia and Baptiste had tweeted about a data breach at MobiKwik, a digital wallet, while FSMI has posted about a leak at Big Basket, on online grocery store. Rajaharia and Baptiste’s accounts were restored within 12 hours, but FSMI was locked out of it’s account for almost 17 days.
Between 27 and 31 March, Twitter locked three accounts that deal with cyber-security issues and regularly post information about data breaches. These accounts belong to the Free Software Movement of India, Rajshekhar Rajaharia and Robert Baptiste, who goes by the name Elliot Alderson on Twitter. Rajaharia and Baptiste had tweeted about a data breach at MobiKwik, a digital wallet, while FSMI
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“On email IDs, yes it was visible and we have fixed it today. In the regional market (social media), no one logs in via email. And log-in through mobile number is default. Email option was asked by corporates and we enabled it around three months ago, but it was about 4% of the total user base,” he said. Radhakrishna added that phone numbers are protected and not available for anyone to see.
Asked about links with a Chinese investor, he said Shunwei Capital, the venture capital arm of Xiaomi, didn’t participate in Koo’s fund-raise last week when it got a little over $4 million. Bombinate Technologies is the parent firm which houses Koo and Vokal (a Quoralike platform).