
If you had Vine back when Vine was still a thing, your email addresses and phone numbers might have been exposed for around 24 hours. Twitter, which owns the video-looping site, has been contacting users to inform them of the breach.
Vine users can no longer upload content to the app beginning this year, with Twitter replacing it with the Vine Camera app, allowing users to either create videos for Twitter or save to phone. The website is now acting as just an archive, and apparently this is the site that has been breached.
According to Vine, the bug has since now been fixed. Vine wrote on a blog post noting “We would like to inform the Vine community that we were alerted to — and immediately fixed — a bug that affected the Vine Archive for less than 24 hours. The bug had the potential to expose the email address or phone number associated with a Vine account to third parties under certain circumstances.
We have already notified all affected account holders for whom we have a verified email address on file, so if you weren’t notified, you most likely weren’t affected.
While we have no information indicating that any user information impacted by this incident has been misused, it’s always a good idea to be cautious of emails or text messages received from unknown senders. Please keep in mind that Vine will only send communications from @twitter.com, and we will never send emails with attachments or request your password by email.”
It’s not clear how or where the data may have been viewed.



