Security News > 2020 > July > Twitter hack latest: Up to 36 compromised accounts had their private messages read – including a Dutch politician's
Twitter has admitted that the naughty folk who hijacked verified accounts last week read a portion of hacked users' direct messages.
Among the 36 Twitter users whose direct messages, email addresses and phone numbers were definitely accessed by account hijackers last week was one Dutch politician, the microblogging platform said overnight.
"We believe that for up to 36 of the 130 targeted accounts, the attackers accessed the DM inbox, including 1 elected official in the Netherlands. To date, we have no indication that any other former or current elected official had their DMs accessed," Twitter said in an updated post.
As we reported last week, a number of Twitter accounts belonging to high-profile individuals were compromised.
The hack is notable because many people, quite wrongly, believe that Twitter direct messages are a reasonably secure method of communication.