The alleged mastermind behind the 15 July “hack” of Twitter accounts of business titans, celebrities and a former president didn’t need sophisticated hacking tools to pierce the company’s security system.
Twitter has struggled for years to police the growing number of employees and contractors who have the ability to reset users’ accounts and override their security…
Twitter said several of its employees were manipulated by hackers into providing credentials for internal systems, and 130 Twitter accounts were targeted including those of Joe Biden, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
Twitter disclosed late on Thursday that hackers targeted about 130 accounts during the cyberattack this week, an incident in which profiles of many prominent people were compromised.
As Twitter grapples with the worst-ever security breach, it must now uncover whether its employees were victims of sophisticated phishing or if they deliberately allowed hackers to access high-profile accounts.
Twitter said hackers accessed its internal systems to hijack some of the platform’s top voices and used them to solicit digital currency.
The extraordinary hacking spree that hit Twitter on Wednesday, leading it to briefly muzzle some of its most widely followed accounts, is drawing questions about the platform’s security.
Twitter has posted a job listing for Web engineers to build a new subscription-based platform, sending its shares surging on Wednesday.
Twitter placed a warning notice on a tweet by US President Donald Trump threatening “serious force” against protesters in the US capital, the second time it has used the label.
Twitter is testing a new feature that will allow users to tweet using their voice, capturing up to 140 seconds of audio in a single tweet.
