You're thinking of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21873229 That was slight...

jsnell on Feb 5, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter says an attacker used its API to match use...

You're thinking of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21873229

That was slightly different, since at that time the only information we had that this unethical "security researcher" had exploited the bug for months on billions of phone numbers and only disclosed it once Twitter blocked them.

This announcement is different in that Twitter appear to be saying that this was being abused by other actors as well.

milofeynman on Feb 5, 2020 [–]

That was exactly the comment. Thank you! It sounds like everyone and their mother was exploiting the API based on today's post. Thanks again.