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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter said on Monday that it had discovered attempts by possible state actors to access the phone numbers associated with user accounts, after a security researcher unearthed a flaw in the company’s 「contacts upload」 feature.
舊金山(路透社)-Twitter周一表示，在一名安全研究人員發現該公司的「聯繫人上傳」功能存在漏洞後，它發現了可能的國家行為者試圖訪問與用戶帳戶相關的電話號碼。
In a statement published on its privacy blog, Twitter said it had identified a 「high volume of requests」 to use the feature coming from IP addresses in Iran, Israel and Malaysia.
Twitter在其隱私博客上發表的一份聲明中表示，已發現「大量請求」使用來自伊朗、以色列和馬來西亞的IP位址的功能。
It said, without elaborating, that 「some of these IP addresses may have ties to state-sponsored actors.」
它說，但沒有詳細說明，「這些IP位址中的一些可能與國家支持的行為者有聯繫。」
A company spokeswoman declined to say how many user phone numbers had been exposed, saying Twitter was unable to identify all of the accounts that may have been impacted.
該公司一位女發言人拒絕透露有多少用戶電話號碼被曝光，稱Twitter無法確定所有可能受到影響的帳戶。
She said Twitter suspected a possible connection to state-backed actors because the attackers in Iran appeared to have had unrestricted access to Twitter, even though the network is banned there.
她說，Twitter懷疑可能與國家支持的行為者有聯繫，因為伊朗的襲擊者似乎可以不受限制地訪問Twitter，儘管該網絡在那裡被禁止。
Tech publication TechCrunch reported on Dec. 24 that a security researcher, Ibrahim Balic, had managed to match 17 million phone numbers to specific Twitter user accounts by exploiting a flaw in the contacts feature of its Android app.
科技出版物TechCrunch在12月24日報導稱，安全研究員易卜拉欣·巴利克(Ibrahim Balic)利用其Android應用程式的聯繫人功能中的一個漏洞，成功地將1700萬個電話號碼與特定的Twitter用戶帳戶進行了匹配。
TechCrunch said it was able to identify a senior Israeli politician by matching a phone number through the tool.
TechCrunch表示，它能夠通過該工具匹配一個電話號碼來識別一名以色列高級政治家。
The feature, which allows people with a user’s phone number to find and connect with that user on Twitter, is off by default for users in the European Union where stringent privacy rules are in place.
這項功能允許擁有用戶電話號碼的人在Twitter上查找並與該用戶聯繫，默認情況下，對歐盟(EU)的用戶關閉，因為歐盟制定了嚴格的隱私規則。
It is switched on by default for all other users globally, the spokeswoman said.
這位發言人說，默認情況下，全球所有其他用戶都會打開該功能。
Twitter said in its statement that it has changed the feature so it no longer reveals specific account names in response to requests.
Twitter在聲明中表示，它已經改變了這一功能，因此不再會在回應請求時披露具體的帳號名稱。