It also means researchers who leverage Twitter's API to collect public data from the site will lose a key resource -- again, unless they pay, CNN reported.

API testing firm APIsec has confirmed it secured an exposed internal database containing customer data, which was connected to the internet for several days without a password.

According to Wiz, this included timestamps, references to API endpoints, people's plaintext chat history, API keys, backend details, and operational metadata, among other things.